A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in FFmpeg 2.0 (Multimedia Processing Software). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component HEVC Video Decoder. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect availability.

The issue has been introduced in 07/11/2013. The weakness was disclosed 02/15/2014 by Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind with Google Security Team as avcodec/hevc: make *ps_id unsigned as confirmed git commit (GIT Repository). It is possible to read the advisory at git.videolan.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2014-125014. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 219 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.videolan.org.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (91211) and Secunia (SA56987†). The entries VDB-12365 and VDB-12366 are pretty similar. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Multimedia Processing Software

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• FFmpeg

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• 2.0

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• open-source

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