CVE-2012-0853
Status: ModifiedMedium (6.8)—
The decodeTonalComponents function in the Actrac3 codec (atrac3.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 (infinite loop and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large component count in an Atrac 3 file.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Base score: 6.8
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 4.29%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 91
- Score date: 10/8/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (2)
CWEs
- CWE-20
References
- http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/780
- http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c509f4f74713b035a06f79cb4d00e708f5226bc5
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9af6abdc17deb95c9b1f1d9242ba49b8b5e0b016
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=c509f4f74713b035a06f79cb4d00e708f5226bc5
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49089
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1
- http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/780
- http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c509f4f74713b035a06f79cb4d00e708f5226bc5
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9af6abdc17deb95c9b1f1d9242ba49b8b5e0b016
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=c509f4f74713b035a06f79cb4d00e708f5226bc5
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49089
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1
Raw JSON (NVD)
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