[VIM] VLC vulnerability (no, not that one) and ffmpeg

Christey, Steven M. coley at mitre.org
Wed Jul 10 11:43:54 CDT 2013


I've been looking into the VLC MKV issue and have been wondering about a DIFFERENT issue that's also being discussed, i.e. Secunia SA51464, which http://secunia.com/blog/372/ claims to be a use-after-free in FFmpeg, although SA51464 itself makes no mention of this.  http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2013/More-lies-from-Secunia also says "The crash is in libavformat/libavcodec libraries, from the FFmpeg/libav projects."  Looks like libavformat/swfdec.c  is patched, at least on the VLC side.

Has anybody dug more deeply?  If this is really an upstream ffmpeg issue, has it already been published?

- Steve



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