CVE-2013-0855

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the alac_decode_close function in libavcodec/alac.c in FFmpeg before 1.1 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a large number of samples per frame in Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) data, which triggers an out-of-bounds array access.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 1.0; 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.4.0 (+48)

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3920d1387834e2bc334aff9f518f4beb24e470bd
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3920d1387834e2bc334aff9f518f4beb24e470bd
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html

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