CVE-2015-6824 Information

Description

The sws_init_context function in libswscale/utils.c in FFmpeg before 2.7.2 does not initialize certain pixbuf data structures which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted video data.

Reference

http://ffmpeg.org/security.html http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=a5d44d5c220e12ca0cb7a4eceb0f74759cb13111 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033483 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00010.html