CVE-2015-8365: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The smka_decode_frame function in libavcodec/smacker.c in FFmpeg before 2.6.5, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, and 2.8.x through 2.8.2 does not verify that the data size is consistent with the number of channels, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted Smacker data.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only
• Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: version 2.6.4 only; version 2.7.0 only; version 2.7.1 only; version 2.7.2 only; version 2.8.0 only; version 2.8.1 only; …

Published 2015-11-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.