CVE-2012-0859

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% 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 render_line function in the vorbis codec (vorbis.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Vorbis file, related to a large multiplier. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-3893.

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=commitdiff%3Bh=6fcf2bb8af0e7d6bb179e71e67e5fab8ef0d2ec2
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/78925
http://ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=6fcf2bb8af0e7d6bb179e71e67e5fab8ef0d2ec2
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/78925

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