vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-7862: ffmpeg, libav -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 14, 2017
Added
Nov 1, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

FFmpeg before 2017-02-07 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the decode_frame function in libavcodec/pictordec.c.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-ffmpegdebian-upgrade-libav
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