CVE-2015-6824 (GCVE-0-2015-6824)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-06 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:29
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Summary
The sws_init_context function in libswscale/utils.c in FFmpeg before 2.7.2 does not initialize certain pixbuf data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted video data.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033483 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://ffmpeg.org/security.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2015-07-18 00:00
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