CVE-2012-0847

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the avfilter_filter_samples function in libavfilter/avfilter.c in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted media file.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 0.9; 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.7, 0.7.8, 0.7.9, 0.7.11 (+7)

References

http://ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ae21776207e8a2bbe268e7c9e203f7599dd87ddb
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/01/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4
http://ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ae21776207e8a2bbe268e7c9e203f7599dd87ddb
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/01/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4

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