CVE-2023-51798

Publication date 19 April 2024

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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	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