CVE-2013-0865

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The vqa_decode_chunk function in libavcodec/vqavideo.c in FFmpeg before 1.0.4 and 1.1.x before 1.1.2 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a large (1) cbp0 or (2) cbpz chunk in Westwood Studios VQA Video file, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 1.0.2; 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.4.0 (+52)

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=08e2c7a45f82b897a285548c257972eb1ad352c5
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f3d16706060ab6ae6dc78f15359fab3fd87c9495
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2855
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=08e2c7a45f82b897a285548c257972eb1ad352c5
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f3d16706060ab6ae6dc78f15359fab3fd87c9495
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2855
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06

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