CVE-2023-49528 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2023-49528?

CVE-2023-49528 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 12 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in FFmpeg version n6.1-3-g466799d4f5, allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service (DoS) via the af_dialoguenhance.c:261:5 in the de_stereo component.

Weakness: CWE-122

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-49528?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Ffmpeg Ffmpeg.

How do I fix CVE-2023-49528?

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-2023-49528 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-49528 exists.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2023-49528, GHSA-66qx-hfv2-c44c, MGASA-2025-0057, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2023-49528, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-49528.