Information Exposure Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,3.1.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369028
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Dec 2016

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

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 3.1.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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.

CVSS Scores

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