CVE-2014-8542

high

Description

libavcodec/utils.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 omits a certain codec ID during enforcement of alignment, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JV data.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00005.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2534-1

http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=105654e376a736d243aef4a1d121abebce912e6b

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-11-05

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H