Improper Validation of Array Index Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,2.8.16)[3.2,3.2.15)[3.4,3.4.7)[4.0,4.0.5)[4.1,4.1.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.81% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369003
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Oct 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Oct 2019

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

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 2.8.16, 3.2.15, 3.4.7, 4.0.5, 4.1.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Array Index. 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.

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