Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ffmpeg  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-FFMPEG-600819
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7859  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ffmpeg package and not the ffmpeg package as distributed by Debian.

FFmpeg before 2017-03-05 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the ff_h264_slice_context_init function in libavcodec/h264dec.c.