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CVE-2008-3230
The ffmpeg lavf demuxer allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted GIF file, possibly…
- 1.9LowCVSS base score
- 0.41%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 64% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The ffmpeg lavf demuxer allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted GIF file, possibly related to gstreamer, as demonstrated by lol-giftopnm.gif.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- ffmpeg-demuxer-dos(44210) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080713 CVE requests: crashers by zzuf (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://roundup.mplayerhq.hu/roundup/ffmpeg/issue530 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 31234 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 31899 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542643 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:297 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-3218 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-3230)Record last updated .