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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-7555: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 23, 2016
Added
Oct 1, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The avi_read_header function in libavformat/avidec.c in FFmpeg before 3.1.4 is vulnerable to memory leak when decoding an AVI file that has a crafted "strh" structure.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpeg
Title
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