Libde265
CVE-2022-43238
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource consumption limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 6.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could cause denial of service by exhausting system resources by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Libde265 v1.0.8 was discovered to contain an unknown crash via ff_hevc_put_hevc_qpel_h_3_v_3_sse in sse-motion.cc. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Implement rate limiting, set resource quotas, validate input sizes, use timeouts.
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This vulnerability is classified as Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400), which allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. Libde265 v1.0.8 was discovered to contain an unknown crash via ff_hevc_put_hevc_qpel_h_3_v_3_sse in sse-motion.cc. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted video file. Affected products include: Struktur Libde265, Debian Debian Linux.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Libde265 v1.0.8 was discovered to contain an unknown crash via ff_hevc_put_hevc_qpel_h_3_v_3_sse in sse-motion.cc. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted video file.
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository strukturag/libde265 prior to and including 1.0.8. Rated critical severit
Libde265 v1.0.14 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow vulnerability in the read_coding_unit function at sl
Libde265 v1.0.14 was discovered to contain a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in the derive_combined_bipredictive_merg
Libde265 v1.0.14 was discovered to contain a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in the derive_spatial_luma_vector_predic
Libde265 v1.0.11 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via the function derive_collocated_motion_vectors at m
Libde265 v1.0.12 was discovered to contain multiple buffer overflows via the num_tile_columns and num_tile_row parameter
Libde265 v1.0.10 was discovered to contain a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in the derive_spatial_luma_vector_predic
Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Libde265 v1.0.15 allows attackers to crash the application via crafted payload to
Libde265 v1.0.11 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function decoder_context::process_slice_segm
libde265 v1.0.10 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference in the mc_chroma function at motion.cc. Rated medi
Libde265 v1.0.8 was discovered to contain a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability via put_unweighted_pred_16_fallback in fa
Libde265 v1.0.8 was discovered to contain a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability via put_epel_16_fallback in fallback-moti
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