CVE-2015-6824

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FFmpeg versions prior to 2.7.2

Description The issue is related to the sws init context function in libswscale/utils.c, which does not properly initialize certain pixbuf data structures. This can be exploited by remote attackers using crafted video data, potentially leading to a denial of service (segmentation violation) or other unspecified impacts.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.7.2, update to version 2.7.2 or later to resolve the issue.