Out-of-Bounds Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,3.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.84% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369210
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Jun 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9995  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 3.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds libavcodec/scpr.c in FFmpeg 3.3 before 3.3.1 does not properly validate height and width data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1