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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2023-50009

High
8/10

Summary

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in ffmpeg allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the "ff_gaussian_blur_8" function in the "libavfilter/edge_template.c:116:5" component. This issue affects versions prior to 6.1.1.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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  • Published