Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting libav package, versions [,11.8]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBAV-2367784
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Mar 2017

CVE-2016-9826  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libav.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) libavcodec/ituh263dec.c in libav 11.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving left shift of a negative value.

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