CVE-2014-8542

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-11-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

libavcodec/utils.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 omits a certain codec ID during enforcement of alignment, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JV data.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
FFmpeg: through 2.4.1

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=105654e376a736d243aef4a1d121abebce912e6b
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2534-1
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00005.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=105654e376a736d243aef4a1d121abebce912e6b
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2534-1
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00005.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06

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