Denial of Service and Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in FFmpeg's Vorbis Codec

CVE-2012-0859 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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