CVE-2025-59729

Heap-buffer-overflow read in FFmpeg DHAV get_duration

State
Published
Severity
5.7 Medium
Published
Oct 6, 2025
Updated
Oct 6, 2025
Reserved
Sep 19, 2025

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Description

When parsing the header for a DHAV file, there's an integer underflow in offset calculation that leads to reading the duration from before the start of the allocated buffer.

If we load a DHAV file that is larger than MAX_DURATION_BUFFER_SIZE bytes (0x100000) for example 0x101000 bytes, then at [0] we have size = 0x101000. At [1] we have end_buffer_size = 0x100000, and at [2] we have end_buffer_pos = 0x1000.

The loop then scans backwards through the buffer looking for the dhav tag; when it is found, we'll calculate end_pos based on a 32-bit offset read from the buffer.

There is subsequently a check [3] that end_pos is within the section of the file that has been copied into end_buffer, but it only correctly handles the cases where end_pos is before the start of the file or after the section copied into end_buffer, and not the case where end_pos is within the the file, but before the section copied into end_buffer. If we provide such an offset, (end_pos - end_buffer_pos) can underflow, resulting in the subsequent access at [4] occurring before the beginning of the allocation.

We recommend upgrading to version 8.0 or beyond.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.7 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:NGoogle

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
FFmpegFFmpeg
  • a218cafe4d3be005ab0c61130f90db4d21afb5db to before 8.0Affected

References

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