CVE-2012-6617 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2013-12-24

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:1.0:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2012-6463	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00707.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9929991da7b843e7d80154fcacc4e80579b86a2d
http://secunia.com/advisories/51964
http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
http://www.osvdb.org/93232
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6617
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/1986
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6617

History

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Subscriptions

Ffmpeg Ffmpeg

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2013-12-24T20:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:59:30.152Z

Reserved: 2013-12-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-6617

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2013-12-24T20:55:04.657

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-6617

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-12-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-6617 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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