CVE-2012-6617

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 prepare_sdp_description function in ffserver.c in FFmpeg before 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the rtp format.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 1.0.1; 1.0

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9929991da7b843e7d80154fcacc4e80579b86a2d
http://secunia.com/advisories/51964
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://www.osvdb.org/93232
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/1986
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9929991da7b843e7d80154fcacc4e80579b86a2d
http://secunia.com/advisories/51964
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://www.osvdb.org/93232
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/1986

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