CVE-2014-5272

medium
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
6.8

Description

libavcodec/iff.c in FFMpeg before 1.1.14, 1.2.x before 1.2.8, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, and 2.3.x before 2.3.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted iff image, which triggers an out-of-bounds array access, related to the rgb8 and rgbn formats.

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":"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

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.