UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8541

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8541

    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8541

    Published: 5 Nov 2014Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-8541
    Aliases:
    USN-2944-1

    Summary:

    Details: libavcodec/mjpegdec.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 considers only dimension differences, and not bits-per-pixel differences, when determining whether an image size has changed, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted MJPEG data.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8541, http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2944-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8541

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libav

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libav@6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1

    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
    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8541 | CVE-DB