CVE-2023-51795 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Ffmpeg v.N113007-g8d24a28d06 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the libavfilter/avf_showspectrum.c:1789:52 component in showspectrumpic_request_frame

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Ffmpeg	Ffmpeg

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References

Link	Providers
https://ffmpeg.org/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6G7EYH2JAK5OJPVNC6AXYQ5K7YGYNCDN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IPETICRXUOGRIM4U3BCRTIKE3IZWCSBT/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LE3ASLH6QF2E5OVJI5VA3JSEPJFFFMNY/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6G7EYH2JAK5OJPVNC6AXYQ5K7YGYNCDN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LE3ASLH6QF2E5OVJI5VA3JSEPJFFFMNY/
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10749

History

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6G7EYH2JAK5OJPVNC6AXYQ5K7YGYNCDN/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LE3ASLH6QF2E5OVJI5VA3JSEPJFFFMNY/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-04-19T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-11-04T17:13:54.629Z

Reserved: 2023-12-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-51795

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-04T17:13:54.629Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-04-19T17:15:52.350

Modified: 2025-11-04T18:15:48.860

Link: CVE-2023-51795

Redhat

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