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CVE-2012-0857

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% 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

Multiple buffer overflows in the get_qcx function in the J2K decoder (j2kdec.c) in libavcode in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• FFmpeg: through 0.9; 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.4.0 (+36)

References

• http://ffmpeg.org/security.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/01/11
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78927
• http://ffmpeg.org/security.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/01/11
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78927

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