CVE-2023-51791 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2023-51791?

CVE-2023-51791 is a high-severity memory corruption 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

Buffer Overflow vulenrability in Ffmpeg v.N113007-g8d24a28d06 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the libavcodec/jpegxl_parser.c in gen_alias_map.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-51791?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Ffmpeg Ffmpeg.

How do I fix CVE-2023-51791?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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

Is CVE-2023-51791 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-51791 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-2023-51791, GHSA-4rw9-59ch-c9mh, JLSEC-2026-634, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-51791.