Security Advisory

CVE-2012-0856

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-08-20 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 18:38:14
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the MPV_frame_start function in libavcodec/mpegvideo.c in FFmpeg before 0.9.1, when the lowres option is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted H263 media file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a regression error.