Out-of-bounds stack read via AAC Main filters
Published Feb 23, 2025 · Updated Feb 24, 2025
Stack-based buffer overflow in FFmpeg's AAC encoder through 7.1 allows attackers to corrupt processing state during AAC Main encoding. When AAC Main selects three temporal-noise-shaping filters for normal long frames, ff_aac_search_for_tns indexes beyond a two-element energy array. Reaching the flaw requires the AAC Main profile and three filters; public evidence demonstrates an out-of-bounds stack access but does not establish code execution.
Summary
What happened
Stack-based buffer overflow in FFmpeg's AAC encoder through 7.1 allows attackers to corrupt processing state during AAC Main encoding. When AAC Main selects three temporal-noise-shaping filters for normal long frames, ff_aac_search_for_tns indexes beyond a two-element energy array. Reaching the flaw requires the AAC Main profile and three filters; public evidence demonstrates an out-of-bounds stack access but does not establish code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-1594
- Published
- Feb 23, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 24, 2025
- Vendor
- FFmpeg
- Product
- FFmpeg
- Classifications
- CWE-119, CWE-121
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 23, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 24, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=3.4.0
- Affected versionversion=3.4.1
- Affected versionversion=3.4.10
- Affected versionversion=3.4.11
- Affected versionversion=3.4.12
- Affected versionversion=3.4.13
- Affected versionversion=3.4.2
- Affected versionversion=3.4.3
- Affected versionversion=3.4.4
- Affected versionversion=3.4.5
- Affected versionversion=3.4.6
- Affected versionversion=3.4.7
- Affected versionversion=3.4.8
- Affected versionversion=3.4.9
- Affected versionversion=4.2.0
- Affected versionversion=4.2.1
- Affected versionversion=4.2.10
- Affected versionversion=4.2.2
- Affected versionversion=4.2.3
- Affected versionversion=4.2.4
- Affected versionversion=4.2.5
- Affected versionversion=4.2.6
- Affected versionversion=4.2.7
- Affected versionversion=4.2.8
- Affected versionversion=4.2.9
- Affected versionversion=4.3.0
- Affected versionversion=4.3.1
- Affected versionversion=4.3.2
- Affected versionversion=4.3.3
- Affected versionversion=4.3.4
- Affected versionversion=4.3.5
- Affected versionversion=4.3.6
- Affected versionversion=4.3.7
- Affected versionversion=4.3.8
- Affected versionversion=4.4.0
- Affected versionversion=4.4.1
- Affected versionversion=4.4.2
- Affected versionversion=4.4.3
- Affected versionversion=4.4.4
- Affected versionversion=4.4.5
- Affected versionversion=5.1.0
- Affected versionversion=5.1.1
- Affected versionversion=5.1.2
- Affected versionversion=5.1.3
- Affected versionversion=5.1.4
- Affected versionversion=5.1.5
- Affected versionversion=5.1.6
- Affected versionversion=6.1.0
- Affected versionversion=6.1.1
- Affected versionversion=6.1.2
- Affected versionversion=7.0
- Affected versionversion=7.0.0
- Affected versionversion=7.0.1
- Affected versionversion=7.0.2
- Affected versionversion=7.1
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What is affected?
Attacks
What attackers are doing with it
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Public exploit references
- FFmpeg ticket 11418 proof-of-concept inputproof of concept · unverified
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