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CVE-2012-0947

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2013-08-20	gstreamer-ffmpeg -- Multiple vulnerabilities in bundled libav

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CVE-2012-0947 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2012-0947
Phase	Assigned(20120201)

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.

References

Source	Reference
MLIST	[oss-security] 20120503 Security issue in libav/ffmpeg
MISC	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/+bug/980963
CONFIRM	http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=58b2e0f0f2fc96c1158e04f8aba95cbe6157a1a3
CONFIRM	http://libav.org/
DEBIAN	DSA-2471
UBUNTU	USN-1479-1
BID	53389
SECUNIA	49089