CVE-2023-6604

Ffmpeg: hls xbin demuxer dos amplification in ffmpeg

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Jan 6, 2025
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Dec 8, 2023

Description

A flaw was found in FFmpeg. This vulnerability allows unexpected additional CPU load and storage consumption, potentially leading to degraded performance or denial of service via the demuxing of arbitrary data as XBIN-formatted data without proper format validation.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	fedora
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-99 Improper Control of Resource Identifiers ('Resource Injection')
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FFmpeg	2.0 to before 6.*Affected

References

RHBZ#2334337issue-tracking
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00004.html

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