CVE-2015-8218

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The decode_uncompressed function in libavcodec/faxcompr.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.2 does not validate uncompressed runs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted CCITT FAX data.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 2.8.1

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d4a731b84a08f0f3839eaaaf82e97d8d9c67da46
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00146.html
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d4a731b84a08f0f3839eaaaf82e97d8d9c67da46
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00146.html

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