CVE-2014-8545

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% 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-189

Description

libavcodec/pngdec.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 accepts the monochrome-black format without verifying that the bits-per-pixel value is 1, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted PNG data.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 2.4.1; 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.4.0 (+98)

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e2b745020c2dbf0201fe7df3dad9e7e0b2e1bb6
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e2b745020c2dbf0201fe7df3dad9e7e0b2e1bb6
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06

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