CVE-2012-0947

no score yetEPSS 4.7%

libav libav: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the vqa_decode_chunk function in the VQA codec (vqavideo.c) in libavcodec in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.6, and 0.8.x before 0.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VQA media file in which the image size is not a multiple of the block size.

EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2012-08-20
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

libav:libav

References

http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=58b2e0f0f2fc96c1158e04f8aba95cbe6157a1a3
http://libav.org/
http://secunia.com/advisories/49089
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2471
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/03/4

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