CVE-2014-8542 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8542?

CVE-2014-8542 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 5 Nov 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

libavcodec/utils.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 omits a certain codec ID during enforcement of alignment, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JV data.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8542?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Ffmpeg Ffmpeg.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8542?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2014-8542 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8542 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8542, GHSA-54rc-7rpj-78x5, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8542.