Improper Validation of Array Index The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ffmpeg  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1904-FFMPEG-532777
  • published15 Oct 2019
  • disclosed14 Oct 2019

Introduced: 14 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17542  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-129  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

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

FFmpeg before 4.2 has a heap-based buffer overflow in vqa_decode_chunk because of an out-of-array access in vqa_decode_init in libavcodec/vqavideo.c.