CVE-2015-1872 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1872?

CVE-2015-1872 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 26 Jul 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The ff_mjpeg_decode_sof function in libavcodec/mjpegdec.c in FFmpeg before 2.5.4 does not validate the number of components in a JPEG-LS Start Of Frame segment, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted Motion JPEG data.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1872?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Ffmpeg Ffmpeg.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1872?

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-2015-1872 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1872 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-2015-1872, GHSA-qcq8-x6c3-9rx4, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1872.