CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-0301

Double Free

Published: Mar 12, 2014 | Modified: May 13, 2019
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Double free vulnerability in qedit.dll in DirectShow in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted JPEG image, aka DirectShow Memory Corruption Vulnerability.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_xp Microsoft - -
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft r2 r2
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft r2 r2
Windows_8.1 Microsoft - -
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft - -
Windows_7 Microsoft - -
Windows_vista Microsoft - -
Windows_8 Microsoft - -
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft - -
Windows_server_2003 Microsoft - -
Windows_xp Microsoft - -

Potential Mitigations

References