Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Ffmpeg v.n6.1-3-g466799d4f5 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the ff_bwdif_filter_intra_c function in the libavfilter/bwdifdsp.c:125:5 component.

The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5985 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5985-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff     August 25, 2025                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : ffmpeg     CVE ID         : CVE-2023-49502 CVE-2023-50007 CVE-2023-50008                      CVE-2024-31582 CVE-2024-35367 CVE-2024-35368                      CVE-2025-0518 CVE-2025-7700 CVE-2025-22919

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FFmpeg multimedia     framework, which could result in denial of service or potentially the     execution of arbitrary code if malformed files/streams are processed.

    For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed     in version 7:5.1.7-0+deb12u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your ffmpeg packages.

    For the detailed security status of ffmpeg please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ffmpeg

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of ffmpeg installed on the remote host is prior to 4.4.6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2025-143-01 advisory.

    New ffmpeg packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix security issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the ffmpeg security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0862-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-22921: Fixed segmentation violation in NULL pointer dereference via the component     /libavcodec/jpeg2000dec.c (bsc#1237382).
    - CVE-2025-25473: Fixed memory leak in avformat_free_context() (bsc#1237351).
    - CVE-2025-0518: Fixed unchecked sscanf return value which leads to memory data leak (bsc#1236007).
    - CVE-2025-22919: Fixed denial of service (DoS) via opening a crafted AAC file (bsc#1237371).
    - CVE-2024-12361: Fixed NULL Pointer Dereference (bsc#1237358).
    - CVE-2024-35368: Fixed Double Free via the rkmpp_retrieve_frame function within libavcodec/rkmppdec.c     (bsc#1234028).
    - CVE-2024-36613: Fixed Integer overflow in ffmpeg (bsc#1235092).
    - CVE-2023-50010: Fixed arbitrary code execution via the set_encoder_id function in /fftools/ffmpeg_enc.c     component (bsc#1223256).
    - CVE-2023-51794: Fixed heap-buffer-overflow at libavfilter/af_stereowiden.c (bsc#1223437).
    - CVE-2023-51793: Fixed heap buffer overflow in the image_copy_plane function in libavutil/imgutils.c     (bsc#1223272).
    - CVE-2023-49502: Fixed heap buffer overflow via the ff_bwdif_filter_intra_c function in     libavfilter/bwdifdsp.c (bsc#1223235).
    - CVE-2023-51798: Fixed floating point exception(FPE) via the interpolate function in     libavfilter/vf_minterpolate.c (bsc#1223304).
    - CVE-2024-31578: Fixed heap use-after-free via the av_hwframe_ctx_init function (bsc#1223070).
    - CVE-2024-7055: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in pnmdec.c (bsc#1229026).
    - CVE-2024-32230: Fixed buffer overflow due to negative-size-param bug at libavcodec/mpegvideo_enc.c in     load_input_picture (bsc#1227296).

    Other fixes:
    - Updated to version 4.4.5.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Ffmpeg v.n6.1-3-g466799d4f5 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary     code via the ff_bwdif_filter_intra_c function in the libavfilter/bwdifdsp.c:125:5 component.
    (CVE-2023-49502)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3928 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3928-1                debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/               Emilio Pozuelo Monfort     October 21, 2024                              https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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    Package        : ffmpeg     Version        : 7:4.3.8-0+deb11u1     CVE ID         : CVE-2023-49502 CVE-2024-7055 CVE-2024-31578

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FFmpeg multimedia     framework, which could result in denial of service or potentially the     execution of arbitrary code if malformed files/streams are processed.

    For Debian 11 bullseye, these problems have been fixed in version     7:4.3.8-0+deb11u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your ffmpeg packages.

    For the detailed security status of ffmpeg please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ffmpeg

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6803-1 advisory.

    Zeng Yunxiang and Song Jiaxuan discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential     arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-49501)

    Zeng Yunxiang and Song Jiaxuan discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential     arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS,     Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-49502)

    Zhang Ling and Zeng Yunxiang discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential     arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-49528)

    Zeng Yunxiang discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary code     execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-50007)

    Zeng Yunxiang and Song Jiaxuan discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential     arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-50008)

    Zeng Yunxiang discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary code     execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-50009)

    Zeng Yunxiang discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary code     execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS     and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-50010)

    Zeng Yunxiang and Li Zeyuan discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential     arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-51793)

    Zeng Yunxiang discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary code     execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.10.
    (CVE-2023-51794, CVE-2023-51798)

    Zeng Yunxiang discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary code     execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-51795, CVE-2023-51796)

    It was discovered that discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary     code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu     23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-31578)

    It was discovered that discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary     code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-31582)

    It was discovered that discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary     code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2024-31585)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-3a548f46a8 advisory.

    update to 125.0.6422.60

          * High CVE-2024-4947: Type Confusion in V8
          * High CVE-2024-4948: Use after free in Dawn
          * Medium CVE-2024-4949: Use after free in V8
          * Low CVE-2024-4950: Inappropriate implementation in Downloads

    ----

    update to 124.0.6367.201

          * High CVE-2024-4671: Use after free in Visuals


    ----

    - update to 124.0.6367.155

          * High CVE-2024-4558: Use after free in ANGLE
          * High CVE-2024-4559: Heap buffer overflow in WebAudio


    ----

    update to 124.0.6367.118

          * High CVE-2024-4331: Use after free in Picture In Picture
          * High CVE-2024-4368: Use after free in Dawn


    ----

    update to 124.0.6367.91

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-92780a83f9 advisory.

    - update to 124.0.6367.155

          * High CVE-2024-4558: Use after free in ANGLE
          * High CVE-2024-4559: Heap buffer overflow in WebAudio


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-55e7e839f1 advisory.

    - update to 124.0.6367.155

          * High CVE-2024-4558: Use after free in ANGLE
          * High CVE-2024-4559: Heap buffer overflow in WebAudio


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1470-1 advisory.

  - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Ffmpeg v.n6.1-3-g466799d4f5 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary     code via the ff_bwdif_filter_intra_c function in the libavfilter/bwdifdsp.c:125:5 component.
    (CVE-2023-49502)

  - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Ffmpeg v.N113007-g8d24a28d06 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary     code via the libavutil/imgutils.c:353:9 in image_copy_plane. (CVE-2023-51793)

  - FFmpeg version n6.1.1 was discovered to contain a heap use-after-free via the av_hwframe_ctx_init     function. (CVE-2024-31578)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1468-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-31578: Fixed heap use-after-free via av_hwframe_ctx_init() when vulkan_frames init failed     (bsc#1223070)
    - CVE-2023-49502: Fixed heap buffer overflow via the ff_bwdif_filter_intra_c function in     libavfilter/bwdifdsp.c (bsc#1223235)

    Adding references for already fixed issues:

    - CVE-2021-38091: Fixed integer overflow in function filter16_sobel in libavfilter/vf_convolution.c     (bsc#1190732)
    - CVE-2021-38090: Fixed integer overflow in function filter16_roberts in libavfilter/vf_convolution.c     (bsc#1190731)
    - CVE-2020-20898: Fixed integer overflow vulnerability in function filter16_prewitt in     libavfilter/vf_convolution.c (bsc#1190724)
    - CVE-2020-20901: Fixed buffer overflow vulnerability in function filter_frame in     libavfilter/vf_fieldorder.c (bsc#1190728)
    - CVE-2020-20900: Fixed buffer overflow vulnerability in function gaussian_blur in     libavfilter/vf_edgedetect.c (bsc#1190727)
    - CVE-2020-20894: Fixed buffer Overflow vulnerability in function gaussian_blur in     libavfilter/vf_edgedetect.c (bsc#1190721)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255189	Debian dsa-5985 : ffmpeg - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
237224	Slackware Linux 15.0 ffmpeg Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2025-143-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	medium
232751	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : ffmpeg-4 (SUSE-SU-2025:0862-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
227399	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-49502	Nessus	Misc.	high
209442	Debian dla-3928 : ffmpeg - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
198152	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 / 24.04 LTS : FFmpeg vulnerabilities (USN-6803-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
197490	Fedora 38 : chromium (2024-3a548f46a8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
195341	Fedora 40 : chromium (2024-92780a83f9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
195322	Fedora 39 : chromium (2024-55e7e839f1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
194743	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : ffmpeg-4 (SUSE-SU-2024:1470-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
194742	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : ffmpeg (SUSE-SU-2024:1468-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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