CVE-2010-3429

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

flicvideo.c in libavcodec 0.6 and earlier in FFmpeg, as used in MPlayer and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted flic file, related to an "arbitrary offset dereference vulnerability."

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 0.6; 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.4.0 (+9)
FFmpeg Libavcodec: all versions
Mplayerhq Mplayer: through 1.0; 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.06, 0.07, 0.08 (+84)

References

http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg%3Ba=commit%3Bh=16c592155f117ccd7b86006c45aacc692a81c23b
http://secunia.com/advisories/41626
http://secunia.com/advisories/43323
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2165
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:060
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:061
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:062
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:088
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:089
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:112
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:114
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2010-004.html

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