Out-of-Bounds Affecting ffmpeg package, versions >=2.2, <2.8.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.84% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-FFMPEG-470881
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed7 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 May 2017

CVE-2017-9996  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade FFmpeg to version 2.8.3 or higher.

Overview

FFmpeg is a FFmpeg static library ruby binding that is compiled for iOS and CocoaPods.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. FFmpeg is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks and possibly other attacks. A malicious user can pass a CHUNKY file to the system to cause a heap-based overflow, crashing the system.

CVSS Scores

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