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ffmpeg — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-6604

A flaw was found in FFmpeg. This vulnerability allows unexpected additional CPU load and storage consumption, potentially leading to degraded performance or denial of service via the demuxing of arbitrary data as XBIN-formatted data without proper format validation.

Products
ffmpeg
Affected versions
7:5.1.3-1, 7:5.1.3-2, 7:5.1.4-0+deb12u1, 7:5.1.5-0+deb12u1, 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1
Fixed versions
7:5.1.7-0+deb12u1, 7:7.1.1-1
CVEs
CVE-2023-6604
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 16:16 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-6604

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 Jan 2025, 17:15 UTC

A flaw was found in FFmpeg. This vulnerability allows unexpected additional CPU load and storage consumption, potentially leading to degraded performance or denial of service via the demuxing of arbitrary data as XBIN-formatted data without proper format validation.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-6604

ffmpeg

Fixed versions: 7:5.1.7-0+deb12u1

ffmpeg

Fixed versions: 7:7.1.1-1

ffmpeg

Fixed versions: 7:7.1.1-1

Complete source record
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