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Alpine Linux: CVE-2012-0858: Multiple vulnerabilities in ffmpeg < 0.8.11 may allow remote code execution

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2012-0858: Multiple vulnerabilities in ffmpeg < 0.8.11 may allow remote code execution

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/04/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

The Shorten codec (shorten.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11, and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Shorten file, related to an "invalid free".

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpeg

References

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