PublicDateAtUSN: 2015-09-05
Candidate: CVE-2015-6824
PublicDate: 2015-09-06 02:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6824
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2944-1
Description:
 The sws_init_context function in libswscale/utils.c in FFmpeg before 2.7.2
 does not initialize certain pixbuf data structures, which allows remote
 attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation) or possibly
 have unspecified other impact via crafted video data.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> as of 2016-03-11, no equivalent fix in libav
 ebarretto> as of 2018-09-27, no equivalent fix in libav
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Samuel Groß, Mateusz Jurczyk, and Gynvael Coldwind
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_ffmpeg:
 upstream: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=a5d44d5c220e12ca0cb7a4eceb0f74759cb13111
upstream_ffmpeg: needs-triage
precise_ffmpeg: DNE
precise/esm_ffmpeg: DNE
trusty_ffmpeg: DNE
trusty/esm_ffmpeg: DNE
vivid_ffmpeg: not-affected (7:2.5.9-0ubuntu0.15.04.1)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_ffmpeg: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_ffmpeg: DNE
wily_ffmpeg: not-affected (7:2.7.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1)
xenial_ffmpeg: not-affected (7:2.8.3-1)
yakkety_ffmpeg: not-affected (7:2.8.3-1)
zesty_ffmpeg: not-affected (7:2.8.3-1)
artful_ffmpeg: not-affected (7:2.8.3-1)
bionic_ffmpeg: not-affected (7:2.8.3-1)
devel_ffmpeg: not-affected (7:2.8.3-1)

Patches_libav:
upstream_libav: needs-triage
precise_libav: released (4:0.8.17-0ubuntu0.12.04.2)
precise/esm_libav: DNE (precise was released [4:0.8.17-0ubuntu0.12.04.2])
trusty_libav: ignored
trusty/esm_libav: DNE (trusty was ignored)
vivid_libav: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_libav: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_libav: DNE
wily_libav: DNE
xenial_libav: DNE
yakkety_libav: DNE
zesty_libav: DNE
artful_libav: DNE
bionic_libav: DNE
devel_libav: DNE