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CVE-2012-0823

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0823 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the VP8 Codec SDK (libvpx) before version 1.0.0. It allows remote attackers to crash applications through corrupt input or by initiating decoding from a P-frame, leading to an out-of-bounds read related to motion vector clamping. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, though its impact is limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.9.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:webmproject:libvpx:*:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:webmproject:libvpx:0.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:webmproject:libvpx:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:webmproject:libvpx:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:webmproject:libvpx:0.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0260 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-0823Moderate

libvpx: VP8 Codec decoder crash introduced in 0.9.7

Jan 29, 2012

References

blog.webmproject.org / 2012/01/vp8-codec-sdk-duclair-released.html
code.google.com / p/webm/source/browse/CHANGELOG
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/01/28/4
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/01/30/2
securityfocus.com / bid/51775