CVE-2012-0947
mediumpriority · track · 29EPSS 0.047 · 92 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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affected products (23)
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references (28)
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- http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=58b2e0f0f2fc96c1158e04f8aba95cbe6157a1a3cnnvd
- http://libav.org/cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49022cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49089cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49620cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49621cnnvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2471cnnvd
- http://www.ffmpeg.org/Patchcnnvd
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