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vulnerability announce 12352

FFmpeg: several vulnerabilities

Synthesis of the vulnerability

An attacker can create a malicious video, and invite the victim to display it with an application linked to FFmpeg, in order to stop it or to execute code on his computer.
Impacted products: Unix (platform).
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 28/01/2013.
Identifiers: BID-57565, BID-57600, VIGILANCE-VUL-12352.

Description of the vulnerability

The FFmpeg suite contains several libraries to process multimedia data.

Several vulnerabilities impact FFmpeg. Technical details are unknown.

An attacker can therefore create a malicious video, and invite the victim to display it with an application linked to FFmpeg, in order to stop it or to execute code on his computer.
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