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CVE-2013-0873

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% 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-20

Description

The read_header function in libavcodec/shorten.c in FFmpeg before 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via an invalid channel count, related to "freeing invalid addresses."

Affected products

• FFmpeg: through 1.1.2; 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.4.0 (+51)

References

• http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4f1279154ee9baf2078241bf5619774970d18b25
• http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4f1279154ee9baf2078241bf5619774970d18b25
• http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06

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