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FFmpeg: CVE-2016-10191: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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FFmpeg: CVE-2016-10191: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/09/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/29/2017
Modified
05/09/2019

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in libavformat/rtmppkt.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.5, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging failure to check for RTMP packet size mismatches.

Solution(s)

  • ffmpeg-upgrade-2_4_14
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-2_8_10
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-3_0_5
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-3_1_6
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-3_2_2

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