Out-of-Bounds Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,3.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.68% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2368966
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-6920  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 3.1.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Heap-based buffer overflow in the decode_block function in libavcodec/exr.c in FFmpeg before 3.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving tile positions.

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