Bug 1046565 (CVE-2012-6617)

Summary:	CVE-2012-6617 qffmpeg/ffmpeg-spice: DoS via vectors related to the rtp format in ffserver.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Ratul Gupta <ratulg>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jkurik, kem
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Description Ratul Gupta 2013-12-26 06:42:13 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-6617 to the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2012-6617
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6617
Assigned: 20131224
Reference: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=9929991da7b843e7d80154fcacc4e80579b86a2d
Reference: http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
Reference: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/1986
Reference: OSVDB:93232
Reference: http://www.osvdb.org/93232
Reference: SECUNIA:51964
Reference: http://secunia.com/advisories/51964

The prepare_sdp_description function in ffserver.c in FFmpeg before 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the rtp format.

Comment 3 Stefan Cornelius 2014-03-24 14:19:24 UTC

Statemenet:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of qffmpeg as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and ffmpeg-spice as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as they did not include support for ffserver.