CVE-2015-1872

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The ff_mjpeg_decode_sof function in libavcodec/mjpegdec.c in FFmpeg before 2.5.4 does not validate the number of components in a JPEG-LS Start Of Frame segment, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted Motion JPEG data.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04
FFmpeg: through 2.5.3

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fabbfaa095660982cc0bc63242c459561fa37037
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72644
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033078
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00041.html
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fabbfaa095660982cc0bc63242c459561fa37037
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72644
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033078
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00041.html

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