CVE-2012-0858

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% 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-399

Description

The Shorten codec (shorten.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11, and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Shorten file, related to an "invalid free".

Affected products

FFmpeg: 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.6, 0.7.7, 0.7.8, 0.7.9 (+6)
libav: 0.5, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.5.4, 0.5.5 (+15)

References

http://ffmpeg.org/
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=204cb29b3c84a74cbcd059d353c70c8bdc567d98
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=204cb29b3c84a74cbcd059d353c70c8bdc567d98
http://libav.org/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1
http://ffmpeg.org/
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=204cb29b3c84a74cbcd059d353c70c8bdc567d98
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=204cb29b3c84a74cbcd059d353c70c8bdc567d98
http://libav.org/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1

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