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OESA-2024-2075 (CVE-2024-7055)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2024-08-30 11:07 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:07 – Source website

Summary

ffmpeg security update

Details

FFmpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital VCR. It can encode in real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio and video, MPEG4, h263, ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash.

Security Fix(es):

A vulnerability was found in FFmpeg up to 7.0.1. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function pnm_decode_frame in the library /libavcodec/pnmdec.c. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 7.0.2 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-273651.(CVE-2024-7055)

Severity

6.3 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7055	ADVISORY

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          "ffmpeg-6.1.1-13.oe2403.aarch64.rpm",
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CVE-2024-7055 (GCVE-0-2024-7055)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-06 06:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:32

Title

FFmpeg pnmdec.c pnm_decode_frame heap-based overflow

Summary

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

6.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

6.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-08 15:41 UTC

CWE

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Assigner

VulDB mitre root

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://vuldb.com/?id.273651	vdb-entrytechnical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.273651	signaturepermissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?submit.376532	third-party-advisory
https://github.com/CookedMelon/ReportCVE/tree/mai…	exploit
https://ffmpeg.org/download.html	patch
https://ffmpeg.org/	product
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	FFmpeg	Affected: 7.0.0 Affected: 7.0.1

Credits

CookedMelon (VulDB User)

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