CVE-2023-51797

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: Apr 19, 2024
Updated: Nov 4, 2025
Reserved: Dec 26, 2023

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Ffmpeg v.N113007-g8d24a28d06 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the libavfilter/avf_showwaves.c:722:24 in showwaves_filter_frame

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
https://ffmpeg.org/
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10756
FEDORA-2024-92780a83f9vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2024-55e7e839f1vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2024-3a548f46a8vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6G7EYH2JAK5OJPVNC6AXYQ5K7YGYNCDN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LE3ASLH6QF2E5OVJI5VA3JSEPJFFFMNY/

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