Out-of-Bounds Affecting libav package, versions [,12.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.73% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBAV-2367744
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Nov 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16803  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libav to version 12.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. In Libav through 11.11 and 12.x through 12.1, the smacker_decode_tree function in libavcodec/smacker.c does not properly restrict tree recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bitstream.c:build_table() out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted Smacker stream.

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