CVE-2014-2097

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-03-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The tak_decode_frame function in libavcodec/takdec.c in FFmpeg before 2.1.4 does not properly validate a certain bits-per-sample value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted TAK (aka Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor) data.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 2.1.3; 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.1, 2.1.1 (+1)

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f58eab151214d2d35ff0973f2b3e51c5eb372da4
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f58eab151214d2d35ff0973f2b3e51c5eb372da4
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06

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