CVE-2012-0853

medium
Published 2012-08-20 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0853

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed7:2.4.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed7:2.4.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed7:2.4.1-1
debian debiansidfixed7:2.4.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed7:2.4.1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ffmpegffmpeg0.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.8
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.9
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.11
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.0
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.8
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.10
libavlibav0.5
libavlibav0.5.1
libavlibav0.5.2
libavlibav0.5.3
libavlibav0.5.4
libavlibav0.5.5
libavlibav0.5.6
libavlibav0.5.7
libavlibav0.6
libavlibav0.6.1
libavlibav0.6.2
libavlibav0.6.3
libavlibav0.6.4
libavlibav0.6.5
libavlibav0.7
libavlibav0.7.1
libavlibav0.7.2
libavlibav0.7.3
libavlibav0.7.4
libavlibav0.8

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.