CVE-2012-2796

critical
Published 2012-09-10 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the vc1_decode_frame function in libavcodec/vc1dec.c in FFmpeg before 0.11 and Libav 0.8.x before 0.8.4 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to inconsistencies in "coded slice positions and interlacing" that trigger "out of array writes."

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-2012-2796

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ffmpegffmpeg{"endIncluding":"0.10.4"}
ffmpegffmpeg0.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.3.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.3.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.3.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.3.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.0
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.8
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.9
ffmpegffmpeg0.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.4.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.4.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.6.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.6.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.6.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.8
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.9
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.11
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.12
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.0
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.5.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.5.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.8
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.10
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.11
ffmpegffmpeg0.9
ffmpegffmpeg0.9.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.10
ffmpegffmpeg0.10.3
libavlibav0.8
libavlibav0.8.1
libavlibav0.8.2
libavlibav0.8.3

References

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