Bug 1034565 (CVE-2013-0873) - CVE-2013-0873 qffmpeg: Invalid free in libavcodec/shorten.c due to invalid channel count
Summary: CVE-2013-0873 qffmpeg: Invalid free in libavcodec/shorten.c due to invalid ch...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2013-0873
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1034570
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Reported: 2013-11-26 06:27 UTC by Ratul Gupta
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-06-10 09:08:04 UTC
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Description Ratul Gupta 2013-11-26 06:27:37 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-0873 to the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2013-0873
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0873
Assigned: 20130107
Reference: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=4f1279154ee9baf2078241bf5619774970d18b25
Reference: http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html

The read_header function in libavcodec/shorten.c in FFmpeg before 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via an invalid channel count, related to "freeing invalid addresses."
Comment 2 Stefan Cornelius 2014-06-10 09:08:04 UTC 
Statement:

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
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