CVE-2012-0852: Ffmpeg

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The adpcm_decode_frame function in adpcm.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.6, and 0.8.x before 0.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an ADPCM file with the number of channels not equal to two.

Affected products

• Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: up to and including 0.9; version 0.7.1 only; version 0.7.2 only; version 0.7.7 only; version 0.7.8 only; version 0.7.9 only; …
• Libav Libav: version 0.5 only; version 0.5.1 only; version 0.5.2 only; version 0.5.3 only; version 0.5.4 only; version 0.5.5 only; …

Published 2012-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.