CVE-2014-8542 Information

Description

libavcodec/utils.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 omits a certain codec ID during enforcement of alignment which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JV data.

Reference

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=105654e376a736d243aef4a1d121abebce912e6b http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2534-1 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00005.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06