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CVE-2012-0852

N/A

Published: August 20, 2012 at 06:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:38 PM UTC

2 products affected across 2 vendorsFFMPEGLibav

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 3%

Description

The adpcm_decode_frame function in adpcm.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.6, and 0.8.x before 0.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an ADPCM file with the number of channels not equal to two.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

FFMPEG · Ffmpeg

95%

v ≤ 0.90.7.1 0.7.11 0.7.12 0.7.2 0.7.7 0.7.8 0.7.9 0.8.10 0.8.11 0.8.5 0.8.6 0.8.7 0.8.8

95%

0.5 0.5.1 0.5.2 0.5.3 0.5.4 0.5.5 0.5.6 0.5.7 0.6 0.6.1 0.6.2 0.6.3 0.6.4 0.6.5 0.7 0.7.1 0.7.2 0.7.3 0.7.4 0.7.5 0.8 0.8 beta2 0.8.1 0.8.2

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (8)

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://ffmpeg.org/security.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=608708009f69ba4cecebf05120c696167494c897

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://libav.org/

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN

Source: [email protected]

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2494

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU

Source: [email protected]

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1

VDB Entryx_refsource_XF

Source: [email protected]

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78932

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/794

CVSS

6.8MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-119

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