CVE-2012-6618

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% 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 av_probe_input_buffer function in libavformat/utils.c in FFmpeg before 1.0.2, when running with certain -probesize values, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted MP3 file, possibly related to frame size or lack of sufficient "frames to estimate rate."

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 1.0.1; 1.0

References

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.user/42233
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=Changelog%3Bhb=refs/tags/v9.11
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e74cd2f4706f71da5e9205003c1d8263b54ed3fb
http://secunia.com/advisories/51964
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/1991
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.user/42233
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=Changelog%3Bhb=refs/tags/v9.11
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e74cd2f4706f71da5e9205003c1d8263b54ed3fb
http://secunia.com/advisories/51964
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/1991

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