Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libav  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-LIBAV-615430
  • published14 Apr 2017
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7865  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

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

FFmpeg before 2017-01-24 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the ipvideo_decode_block_opcode_0xA function in libavcodec/interplayvideo.c and the avcodec_align_dimensions2 function in libavcodec/utils.c.