CVE-2012-6616

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2012-6616 · Published 24/12/2013 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-6616 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting ffmpeg (ffmpeg).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 76.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ffmpeg ffmpeg	`= 1.0≤ 1.0.1`	No fix yet

Description

The mov_text_decode_frame function in libavcodec/movtextdec.c in FFmpeg before 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted 3GPP TS 26.245 data.

References

git.videolan.org
secunia.com/advisories/51964 · Vendor Advisory
ffmpeg.org/security.html
osvdb.org/93242
trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2087 · Exploit

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