CVE-2012-0859: Ffmpeg

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The render_line function in the vorbis codec (vorbis.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Vorbis file, related to a large multiplier. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-3893.

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; …

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