DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0947

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0947

    Published: 20 Aug 2012Last Modified: 5 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2012-0947

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0947

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ffmpeg

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/ffmpeg?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -7:2.4.1-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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