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CVE-2012-0852

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0852 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the adpcm_decode_frame function within libavcodec in FFmpeg and Libav. Specifically, an ADPCM file crafted with a number of channels not equal to two can trigger an application crash and potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring medium attack complexity and potentially impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0274 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ffmpeg.org / security.html
git.videolan.org
libav.org
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/78932
ffmpeg.org / trac/ffmpeg/ticket/794
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2494
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1479-1