CVE-2008-3230

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-3230
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-07-18 16:41:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe ffmpeg lavf demuxer allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted GIF file, possibly related to gstreamer, as demonstrated by lol-giftopnm.gif.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 1.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ffmpeg Lavf Demuxer All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE requests: crashers by zzuf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:297 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
roundup.mplayerhq.hu/roundup/ffmpeg/issue530 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 roundup.mplayerhq.hu Exploit
Bug 542643 – gif crashing gstreamer af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.gnome.org Exploit
FFmpeg libavformat gifdec.c GIF Processing Denial of Service - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
FFmpeg 'lavf_demux' Animated GIF Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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