CVE-2024-38950

Publication date 26 June 2024

Last updated 20 July 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Libde265 v1.0.15 allows attackers to crash the application via crafted payload to __interceptor_memcpy function.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libde265	26.04 LTS resolute	Fixed 1.0.16-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	25.10 questing	Ignored end of life, was needed
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2026-04-21]
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2026-04-21]
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.0.15-1ubuntu0.1
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2024-09-16]
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.0.8-1ubuntu0.3+esm2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.0.4-1ubuntu0.4+esm2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.0.2-2ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm6
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of ESM support, was deferred [2026-04-21]

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Notes

mdeslaur

same fix as CVE-2024-38949

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
libde265	Upstream: https://github.com/strukturag/libde265/pull/462 Upstream: 4089de0

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	-