CVE-2015-8272

Publication date 13 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

RTMPDump 2.4 allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and process crash).

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
rtmpdump	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.4+20151223.gitfa8646d-1ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.4+20121230.gitdf6c518-1ubuntu0.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
rtmpdump	Upstream: http://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/rtmpdump.git/commitdiff/4312322107a94c81d3ec5b98f91bc6b923551dc5

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3283-1
rtmpdump vulnerabilities
9 May 2017

USN-3283-2
rtmpdump vulnerabilities
23 May 2017

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