CVE-2013-3673

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-06-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The gif_decode_frame function in gifdec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 1.2.1 does not properly manage the disposal methods of frames, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and application crash) via crafted GIF data.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 1.2

References

http://ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7ee5e97c46e30fb3d6f9f78cc3313dbc06528b37
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d23b8462b5a4a9da78ed45c4a7a3b35d538df909
http://ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7ee5e97c46e30fb3d6f9f78cc3313dbc06528b37
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d23b8462b5a4a9da78ed45c4a7a3b35d538df909

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