CVE-2014-9604

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% 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-189

Description

libavcodec/utvideodec.c in FFmpeg before 2.5.2 does not check for a zero value of a slice height, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted Ut Video data, related to the (1) restore_median and (2) restore_median_il functions.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04
FFmpeg: through 2.5.1

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3881606240953b9275a247a1c98a567f3c44890f
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2534-1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3881606240953b9275a247a1c98a567f3c44890f
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2534-1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06

Get alerted when CVE-2014-9604 or the next vulnerability affects your stack