Out-of-Bounds Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,2.8.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369126
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Dec 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Dec 2015

CVE-2015-8661  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 2.8.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The h264_slice_header_init function in libavcodec/h264_slice.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.3 does not validate the relationship between the number of threads and the number of slices, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted H.264 data.

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