CVE-2012-6615

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-12-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The ff_ass_split_override_codes function in libavcodec/ass_split.c in FFmpeg before 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a subtitle dialog without text.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 1.0.1; 1.0

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=20c121c00747d6c3b0b0f98deeff021171b2ed74
http://secunia.com/advisories/51964
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://www.osvdb.org/89592
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2048
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=20c121c00747d6c3b0b0f98deeff021171b2ed74
http://secunia.com/advisories/51964
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://www.osvdb.org/89592
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2048

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