CVE-2015-6824 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in FFmpeg versions prior to 2.7.2, specifically within the sws_init_context function, due to uninitialized pixbuf data structures. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a segmentation fault or potentially other impacts via crafted video data, affecting products like Canonical FFmpeg and Ubuntu Linux. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, leading to potential partial impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating low current attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.