CVE-2023-50008 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2023-50008?

CVE-2023-50008 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 19 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

FFmpeg v.n6.1-3-g466799d4f5 allows memory consumption when using the colorcorrect filter, in the av_malloc function in libavutil/mem.c:105:9 component.

Weakness: CWE-120

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-50008?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Ffmpeg Ffmpeg.

How do I fix CVE-2023-50008?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-50008 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-50008 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2023-50008, GHSA-6cjw-2w3q-pv7g, JLSEC-2025-130, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-50008.