CVE-2012-0852

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% 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

The adpcm_decode_frame function in adpcm.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 and 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 0.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an ADPCM file with the number of channels not equal to two.

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)
libav: 0.5, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.5.4, 0.5.5 (+18)

References

http://ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=608708009f69ba4cecebf05120c696167494c897
http://libav.org/
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2494
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78932
https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/794
http://ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=608708009f69ba4cecebf05120c696167494c897
http://libav.org/
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2494

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