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CVE-2012-0947
Published: Aug 20, 2012
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/+bug/980963
x_refsource_MISC
USN-1479-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
49089
third-party-advisory
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DSA-2471
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://libav.org/
x_refsource_CONFIRM
53389
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
[oss-security] 20120503 Security issue in libav/ffmpeg
mailing-list
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