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Xvid Buffer overflow Vulnerability (Windows) - Jun09

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Buffer overflow

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

This host has Xvid installed, and is prone to Buffer Overflow vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

- Inadequate sanitation of user supplied data in 'decoder_iframe', 'decoder_pframe' and 'decoder_bframe' functions in xvidcore/src/decoder.c and can be exploited by providing a crafted macroblock (aka MBlock) number in a video stream in a crafted movie file. - A boundary error in 'decoder_create' function n xvidcore/src/decoder.c can be exploited via vectors involving the DirectShow (aka DShow) frontend and improper handling of the XVID_ERR_MEMORY return code during processing of a crafted movie file

Affected Software

Affected Software

Xvid before 1.2.2 on Windows.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to Xvid 1.2.2 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)