CVE-2012-2796: Ffmpeg

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

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."

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 0.8 only; version 0.8.1 only; version 0.8.2 only; version 0.8.3 only

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