vulnerability

FFmpeg: CVE-2017-5025: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 17, 2017
Added
Sep 29, 2017
Modified
Apr 17, 2026

Description

FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

Solutions

ffmpeg-upgrade-2_4_14ffmpeg-upgrade-2_8_11ffmpeg-upgrade-3_0_7ffmpeg-upgrade-3_1_7ffmpeg-upgrade-3_2_4
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