CVE-2023-51798

Publication date 19 April 2024

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Ffmpeg v.N113007-g8d24a28d06 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via a floating point exception (FPE) error at libavfilter/vf_minterpolate.c:1078:60 in interpolate.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ffmpeg	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 7:6.0-6ubuntu1.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm4
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm5
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm5
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6803-1
FFmpeg vulnerabilities
30 May 2024