Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 20, 2012· Updated Apr 29, 2026
CVE-2012-0853
CVE-2012-0853
Description
The decodeTonalComponents function in the Actrac3 codec (atrac3.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12, and 0.8.x before 0.8.11; and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large component count in an Atrac 3 file.
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Affected products
42cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 17 more
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: >=0.7.0, <0.7.12 ; >=0.8.0, <0.8.11
cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 23 more
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.7:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.7:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.8:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: >=0.5, <0.5.9 ; >=0.6, <0.6.6 ; >=0.7, <0.7.5 ; >=0.8, <0.8.1
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References
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