CVE-2015-1207

Publication date 6 June 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Double-free vulnerability in libavformat/mov.c in FFMPEG in Google Chrome 41.0.2251.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted .m4a file.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
ffmpeg	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
oxide-qt	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored Ubuntu touch end-of-life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

reproducer in chromium bug report

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
ffmpeg	Upstream: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=3859868c75313e318ebc5d0d33baada62d45dd75

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H