The Shorten codec (shorten.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11, and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Shorten file, related to an "invalid free".

Bundled version of libav in gstreamer-ffmpeg contains a number of vulnerabilities.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in FFmpeg, a multimedia player, server and encoder. Multiple input validations in the decoders/demuxers for Shorten, Chinese AVS video, VP5, VP6, AVI, AVS and MPEG-1/2 files could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Most of these issues were discovered by Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201210-06 (Libav: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Libav. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted media       file in an application linked against Libav, possibly resulting in       execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the application or a       Denial of Service condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in ffmpeg :

The Matroska format decoder in FFmpeg does not properly allocate memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file (CVE-2011-3362, CVE-2011-3504).

cavsdec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect write operation and application crash) via an invalid bitstream in a Chinese AVS video (aka CAVS) file, related to the decode_residual_block, check_for_slice, and cavs_decode_frame functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3362 (CVE-2011-3973).

Integer signedness error in the decode_residual_inter function in cavsdec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect write operation and application crash) via an invalid bitstream in a Chinese AVS video (aka CAVS) file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3362 (CVE-2011-3974).

Double free vulnerability in the Theora decoder in FFmpeg allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted stream (CVE-2011-3892).

FFmpeg does not properly implement the MKV and Vorbis media handlers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors (CVE-2011-3893).

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Vorbis decoder in FFmpeg allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted stream (CVE-2011-3895).

An error within the QDM2 decoder (libavcodec/qdm2.c) can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow (CVE-2011-4351).

An integer overflow error within the 'vp3_dequant()' function (libavcodec/vp3.c) can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow (CVE-2011-4352).

Errors within the 'av_image_fill_pointers()', the 'vp5_parse_coeff()', and the 'vp6_parse_coeff()' functions can be exploited to trigger out-of-bounds reads (CVE-2011-4353).

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed VMD files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted VMD file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program (CVE-2011-4364).

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed SVQ1 streams. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted SVQ1 stream file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program (CVE-2011-4579).

Multiple input validations in the decoders/ demuxers for Westwood Studios VQA, Apple MJPEG-B, Theora, Matroska, Vorbis, Sony ATRAC3, DV, NSV, files could lead to the execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2011-3929, CVE-2011-3936, CVE-2011-3937, CVE-2011-3940, CVE-2011-3945, CVE-2011-3947, CVE-2012-0853, CVE-2012-0858).

The updated packages have been upgraded to the 0.7.12 version where these issues has been corrected.

Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed DV files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted DV file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2011-3929, CVE-2011-3936)

Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed NSV files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted NSV file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2011-3940)

Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed MJPEG-B files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted MJPEG-B file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2011-3947)

Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed DPCM files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted DPCM file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2011-3951)

Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed KMVC files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted KMVC file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2011-3952)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed H.264 files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted H.264 file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-0851)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed ADPCM files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted ADPCM file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-0852)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed Atrac 3 files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Atrac 3 file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-0853)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed Shorten files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Shorten file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-0858)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed Vorbis files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Vorbis file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-0859)

Fabian Yamaguchi discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed VQA files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted VQA file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-0947).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed DV files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted DV file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2011-3929, CVE-2011-3936)

Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed NSV files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted NSV file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2011-3940)

Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed Kega Game Video (KGV1) files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Kega Game Video (KGV1) file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2011-3945)

Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed MJPEG-B files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted MJPEG-B file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2011-3947)

Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed DPCM files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted DPCM file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2011-3951)

Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed KMVC files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted KMVC file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2011-3952)

Jeong Wook Oh discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed ASF files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted ASF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.10.
(CVE-2011-4031)

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed Westwood SNDx files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Westwood SNDx file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2012-0848)

Diana Elena Muscalu discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed AAC files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted AAC file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2012-0850)

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed H.264 files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted H.264 file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-0851)

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed ADPCM files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted ADPCM file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2012-0852)

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed Atrac 3 files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Atrac 3 file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2012-0853)

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed Shorten files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Shorten file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2012-0858)

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed Vorbis files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Vorbis file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2012-0859)

Fabian Yamaguchi discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed VQA files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted VQA file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-0947).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
69412	FreeBSD : gstreamer-ffmpeg -- Multiple vulnerabilities in bundled libav (4d087b35-0990-11e3-a9f4-bcaec565249c)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	critical
64648	Debian DSA-2624-1 : ffmpeg - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
62651	GLSA-201210-06 : Libav: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
61951	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ffmpeg (MDVSA-2012:076)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	critical
59566	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : ffmpeg vulnerabilities (USN-1479-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
59565	Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : libav vulnerabilities (USN-1478-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2012-0858

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