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CVE-2014-9603

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The vmd_decode function in libavcodec/vmdvideo.c in FFmpeg before 2.5.2 does not validate the relationship between a certain length value and the frame width, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted Sierra VMD video data.

Affected products

• FFmpeg: through 2.5.1

References

• http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3030fb7e0d41836f8add6399e9a7c7b740b48bfd
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3030fb7e0d41836f8add6399e9a7c7b740b48bfd
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06

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