CVE-2012-0947

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLibav
PublishedAug 20, 2012
First seenAug 20, 2012

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
libav libav0.5, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.5.4, 0.5.5, 0.5.6, 0.5.7, 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.7.4, 0.7.5, 0.8, 0.8.1—

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