CVE-2023-49501

Published: Apr 19, 2024Modified: Nov 4, 2025

8.0

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 2.5 / Impact: 5.5

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Ffmpeg v.n6.1-3-g466799d4f5 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the config_eq_output function in the libavfilter/asrc_afirsrc.c:495:30 component.

Affected (4)

Products: Ffmpeg: Ffmpeg · Fedoraproject: Fedora

1 product

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Ffmpeg Ffmpeg	Version 6.1

Configuration B

3 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Fedoraproject Fedora	Version 38
Fedoraproject Fedora	Version 39
Fedoraproject Fedora	Version 40

Related CWEs

CWE-122

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

References (15)

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg

Source: cve@mitre.org

Product

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6G7EYH2JAK5OJPVNC6AXYQ5K7YGYNCDN/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IPETICRXUOGRIM4U3BCRTIKE3IZWCSBT/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LE3ASLH6QF2E5OVJI5VA3JSEPJFFFMNY/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10686

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitIssue Tracking

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10686#no1

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitIssue Tracking

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg