CVE-2012-2796

critical
Published 2012-09-10 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the vc1_decode_frame function in libavcodec/vc1dec.c in FFmpeg before 0.11 and Libav 0.8.x before 0.8.4 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to inconsistencies in "coded slice positions and interlacing" that trigger "out of array writes."

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 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ffmpegffmpeg{"endIncluding":"0.10.4"}
ffmpegffmpeg0.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.3.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.3.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.3.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.3.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.0
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.8
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.9
ffmpegffmpeg0.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.4.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.4.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.6.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.6.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.6.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.8
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.9
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.11
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.12
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.0
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.5.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.5.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.8
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.10
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.11
ffmpegffmpeg0.9
ffmpegffmpeg0.9.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.10
ffmpegffmpeg0.10.3
libavlibav0.8
libavlibav0.8.1
libavlibav0.8.2
libavlibav0.8.3

References

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

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