CVE-2014-8544

high

Description

libavcodec/tiff.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 does not properly validate bits-per-pixel fields, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted TIFF data.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2534-1

http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e1c0cfaa419aa5d320540d5a1b3f8fd9b82ab7e5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-11-05

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H