VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0859

medium
Published 2012-08-20 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

The render_line function in the vorbis codec (vorbis.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Vorbis file, related to a large multiplier. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-3893.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 7:2.4.1-1
sid Fixed 7:2.4.1-1
forky Fixed 7:2.4.1-1
bullseye Fixed 7:2.4.1-1
bookworm Fixed 7:2.4.1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ffmpegffmpeg{"endIncluding":"0.9"}
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.8
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.9
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.11
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.12
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.8
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.10
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.11

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.