CVE-2013-2496

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The msrle_decode_8_16_24_32 function in msrledec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg through 1.1.3 does not properly determine certain end pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted Microsoft RLE data.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 1.1.3; 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=commit%3Bh=e398990eb87785e20e065cd3f14d1dbb69df4392
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1790-1
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e398990eb87785e20e065cd3f14d1dbb69df4392
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1790-1

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