Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ffmpeg  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1804-FFMPEG-619755
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed23 Dec 2016

Introduced: 23 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-7555  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

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

The avi_read_header function in libavformat/avidec.c in FFmpeg before 3.1.4 is vulnerable to memory leak when decoding an AVI file that has a crafted "strh" structure.