CVE-2015-6824

Description

The sws_init_context function in libswscale/utils.c in FFmpeg before 2.7.2 does not initialize certain pixbuf data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted video data.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00010.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033483

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a5d44d5c220e12ca0cb7a4eceb0f74759cb13111

http://ffmpeg.org/security.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3