UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5271

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5271

    Published: 3 Nov 2014Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-5271

    Summary:

    Details: Heap-based buffer overflow in the encode_slice function in libavcodec/proresenc_kostya.c in FFMpeg before 1.1.14, 1.2.x before 1.2.8, 2.x before 2.2.7, and 2.3.x before 2.3.3 and Libav before 10.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-5271, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5271, https://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=52b81ff4635c077b2bc8b8d3637d933b6629d803, https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commitdiff;h=45ce880a9b3e50cfa088f111dffaf8685bd7bc6b

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libav

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libav?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    6:0.8.7-1ubuntu2

    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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