CVE-2013-0873

NameCVE-2013-0873
DescriptionThe 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."
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs717009

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ffmpeg (PTS)bullseye7:4.3.7-0+deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)7:4.3.8-0+deb11u1fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie7:7.1-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ffmpegsourcesqueeze(unfixed)end-of-life
ffmpegsource(unstable)7:2.4.1-1
libavsource(unstable)6:0.8.6-1717009

Notes

[squeeze] - ffmpeg <end-of-life> (Backports to 0.5.x not useful, too many checks missing)
Commit in libav trunk http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=c10da30d8426a1f681d99a780b6e311f7fb4e5c5
https://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=4f1279154ee9baf2078241bf5619774970d18b25
Fix needed for ffmpeg 0.5

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