CVE-2014-5271

high
Published 2014-11-03 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

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.

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
libavlibav0.5.4
libavlibav0.5.5
ffmpegffmpeg{"endIncluding":"1.1.13"}
ffmpegffmpeg1.1
ffmpegffmpeg1.1.1
ffmpegffmpeg1.1.2
ffmpegffmpeg1.1.3
ffmpegffmpeg1.1.4
ffmpegffmpeg1.1.5
ffmpegffmpeg1.1.6
ffmpegffmpeg1.1.7
ffmpegffmpeg1.1.8
ffmpegffmpeg1.1.9
ffmpegffmpeg1.1.10
ffmpegffmpeg1.1.11
ffmpegffmpeg1.1.12
ffmpegffmpeg1.2
ffmpegffmpeg1.2.1
ffmpegffmpeg1.2.3
ffmpegffmpeg1.2.4
ffmpegffmpeg1.2.5
ffmpegffmpeg1.2.6
ffmpegffmpeg1.2.7
ffmpegffmpeg2.0
ffmpegffmpeg2.0.1
ffmpegffmpeg2.0.2
ffmpegffmpeg2.0.3
ffmpegffmpeg2.0.4
ffmpegffmpeg2.0.5
ffmpegffmpeg2.1
ffmpegffmpeg2.1.1
ffmpegffmpeg2.1.2
ffmpegffmpeg2.1.3
ffmpegffmpeg2.1.4
ffmpegffmpeg2.1.5
ffmpegffmpeg2.2
ffmpegffmpeg2.2.4
ffmpegffmpeg2.3
ffmpegffmpeg2.3.2
libavlibav{"endIncluding":"10.4"}
libavlibav0.5
libavlibav0.5.1
libavlibav0.5.2
libavlibav0.5.3
libavlibav0.5.6
libavlibav0.5.7
libavlibav0.5.8
libavlibav0.6
libavlibav0.6.1
libavlibav0.6.2
libavlibav0.6.3
libavlibav0.6.4
libavlibav0.6.5
libavlibav0.7
libavlibav0.7.1
libavlibav0.7.2
libavlibav0.7.3
libavlibav0.7.4
libavlibav0.7.5
libavlibav0.7.6
libavlibav0.8
libavlibav0.8.1
libavlibav0.8.2
libavlibav0.8.3
libavlibav0.8.4
libavlibav0.8.5
libavlibav0.8.6
libavlibav0.8.7
libavlibav0.8.8
libavlibav0.8.9
libavlibav0.8.10
libavlibav0.8.11
libavlibav0.8.12
libavlibav10.1
libavlibav10.2
libavlibav10.3

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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