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FFmpeg: CVE-2022-3965: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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FFmpeg: CVE-2022-3965: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/13/2022
Created
11/21/2022
Added
11/21/2022
Modified
04/10/2023

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in ffmpeg. This vulnerability affects the function smc_encode_stream of the file libavcodec/smcenc.c of the component QuickTime Graphics Video Encoder. The manipulation of the argument y_size leads to out-of-bounds read. The attack can be initiated remotely. The name of the patch is 13c13109759090b7f7182480d075e13b36ed8edd. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-213544.

Solution(s)

  • ffmpeg-upgrade-5_0_3
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-5_1_3
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-6_0

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