CVE-2012-6616

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-12-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The mov_text_decode_frame function in libavcodec/movtextdec.c in FFmpeg before 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted 3GPP TS 26.245 data.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 1.0.1; 1.0

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=68e48ed72e0597ae61bc3e9e6e6d9edcb1a00073
http://secunia.com/advisories/51964
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://www.osvdb.org/93242
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2087
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=68e48ed72e0597ae61bc3e9e6e6d9edcb1a00073
http://secunia.com/advisories/51964
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://www.osvdb.org/93242
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2087

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