CVE-2012-2789: Ffmpeg

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in the avi_read_packet function in libavformat/avidec.c in FFmpeg before 0.11, and Libav 0.7.x before 0.7.7 and 0.8.x before 0.8.4, has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to a large number of vector coded coefficients (num_vec_coeffs).

Affected products

• Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: up to and including 0.10.4; version 0.3 only; version 0.3.1 only; version 0.3.2 only; version 0.3.3 only; version 0.3.4 only; …
• Libav Libav: version 0.7 only; version 0.7.1 only; version 0.7.2 only; version 0.7.3 only; version 0.7.4 only; version 0.7.5 only; …

Published 2012-09-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.