Process crash via showspectrumpic frame-array overrun
Published Apr 17, 2024 · Updated Jun 9, 2025
Off-by-one error in FFmpeg n5.1 through n6.1 allows local users to crash the process via crafted input to the showspectrumpic filter. In showspectrumpic_request_frame, an inclusive loop bound permits nb_frame to equal nb_frames before indexing the frames array, producing an out-of-array access. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access and user interaction; the documented consequence is a process crash, not data access or modification.
Summary
What happened
Off-by-one error in FFmpeg n5.1 through n6.1 allows local users to crash the process via crafted input to the showspectrumpic filter. In showspectrumpic_request_frame, an inclusive loop bound permits nb_frame to equal nb_frames before indexing the frames array, producing an out-of-array access. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access and user interaction; the documented consequence is a process crash, not data access or modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-31585
- Published
- Apr 17, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 9, 2025
- Vendor
- FFmpeg
- Product
- FFmpeg
- Classifications
- CWE-193, T1204.002
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 17, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 9, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=n5.1 <=n6.1
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