CVE-2012-0947
N/A
Published: August 20, 2012 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:38 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLibav
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 5%
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the vqa_decode_chunk function in the VQA codec (vqavideo.c) in libavcodec 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 0.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VQA media file in which the image size is not a multiple of the block size.
Remediation
No guide yetNo 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://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=58b2e0f0f2fc96c1158e04f8aba95cbe6157a1a3Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2471Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/03/4x_refsource_MISCExploit
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/+bug/980963Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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