CVE-2023-51792

Publication date 19 April 2024

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libde265 v1.0.12 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the allocation size exceeding the maximum supported size of 0x10000000000.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libde265	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 1.0.12-2ubuntu0.2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.0.8-1ubuntu0.3+esm1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.0.4-1ubuntu0.4+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.0.2-2ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm5
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.0.2-2ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm5

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libde265	Upstream: 221e767

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.3 · Low
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6764-1
libde265 vulnerability
7 May 2024