CVE-2012-0858

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

Description

The Shorten codec (shorten.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 (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Shorten file, related to an "invalid free".

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-2012-0858

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://libav.org/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://ffmpeg.org/

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed7:2.2.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed7:2.2.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed7:2.2.1-1
debian debiansidfixed7:2.2.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed7:2.2.1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.8
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.9
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.11
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-399

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