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CVE-2013-0873

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-0873 describes a critical vulnerability in the read_header function of libavcodec/shorten.c within FFmpeg versions prior to 1.1.3. This flaw allows remote attackers to cause an unspecified impact, potentially involving memory corruption due to "freeing invalid addresses," by providing an invalid channel count. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0284 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: qffmpeg

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-0873Moderate

qffmpeg: Invalid free in libavcodec/shorten.c due to invalid channel count

Feb 13, 2013

References

git.videolan.org
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201603-06
ffmpeg.org / security.html