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CVE-2023-50009

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-122

Description

FFmpeg v.n6.1-3-g466799d4f5 allows a heap-based buffer overflow via the ff_gaussian_blur_8 function in libavfilter/edge_template.c:116:5 component.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 38, 39, 40
• FFmpeg: from 6.1 before 7.0 — fixed in 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: FFmpeg 7.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://ffmpeg.org/
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/162b4c60c8f72be2e93b759f3b1e14652b70b3ba
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/c443658d26d2b8e19901f9507a890e0efca79056
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6G7EYH2JAK5OJPVNC6AXYQ5K7YGYNCDN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IPETICRXUOGRIM4U3BCRTIKE3IZWCSBT/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LE3ASLH6QF2E5OVJI5VA3JSEPJFFFMNY/
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10699
• https://ffmpeg.org/
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6G7EYH2JAK5OJPVNC6AXYQ5K7YGYNCDN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IPETICRXUOGRIM4U3BCRTIKE3IZWCSBT/

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