Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,2.8.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.62% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369129
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7863  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 2.8.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. FFmpeg before 2017-02-04 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the decode_frame_common function in libavcodec/pngdec.c.

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