CVE-2012-0858: ffmpeg Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2012-0858 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in ffmpeg. EPSS estimates a 4.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.1% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 20-08-2012PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 17-09-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
The Shorten codec (shorten.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11, and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Shorten file, related to an "invalid free".
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
4.34%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
91%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 4.34% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian1 product
- ffmpeg< 7:2.2.1-1
Ffmpeg1 product
- ffmpegEOL0.7.1 | 0.7.2 | 0.7.6 | 0.7.7 | 0.7.8 | 0.7.9 | 0.7.11 | 0.8.5 | 0.8.6 | 0.8.7 | 0.8.8 | 0.8.10
Libav1 product
- libav0.5 | 0.5.1 | 0.5.2 | 0.5.3 | 0.5.4 | 0.5.5 | 0.5.6 | 0.5.7 | 0.6 | 0.6.1 | 0.6.2 | 0.6.3 | 0.6.4 | 0.6.5 | 0.7 | 0.7.1 | 0.7.2 | 0.7.3 | 0.7.4 | 0.8 | 0.8:beta2
3 vendors · 3 products
