ubuntu-cve-2014-8544
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2014-11-05 00:00
Modified
2026-04-22 07:37
Summary
Details

libavcodec/tiff.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 does not properly validate bits-per-pixel fields, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted TIFF data.

Severity
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libav-tools",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libavcodec-extra",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libavcodec-extra-54",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libavcodec54",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libavdevice-extra-53",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libavdevice53",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libavfilter-extra-3",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libavfilter3",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libavformat-extra-54",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libavformat54",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libavresample1",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libavutil-extra-52",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libavutil52",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libswscale-extra-2",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libswscale2",
            "binary_version": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "libav",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libav@6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "6:0.8.7-1ubuntu2",
        "6:9.10-1ubuntu1",
        "6:9.10-1ubuntu2",
        "6:9.10-1ubuntu5",
        "6:9.10-1ubuntu6",
        "6:9.10-1ubuntu7",
        "6:9.11-2ubuntu1",
        "6:9.11-2ubuntu2",
        "6:9.13-0ubuntu0.14.04.1",
        "6:9.14-0ubuntu0.14.04.1",
        "6:9.16-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "libavcodec/tiff.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 does not properly validate bits-per-pixel fields, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted TIFF data.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8544",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:37:44Z",
  "published": "2014-11-05T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8544"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=e1c0cfaa419aa5d320540d5a1b3f8fd9b82ab7e5"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2534-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8544"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-2534-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2014-8544"
  ]
}



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