CVE-2012-0947

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the vqa_decode_chunk function in the VQA codec (vqavideo.c) in libavcodec in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.6, and 0.8.x before 0.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VQA media file in which the image size is not a multiple of the block size.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53389

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/03/4

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2471

http://secunia.com/advisories/49089

http://libav.org/

http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=58b2e0f0f2fc96c1158e04f8aba95cbe6157a1a3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3