vulnerability
FFmpeg: CVE-2017-7859: Out-of-bounds Write
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Apr 14, 2017 | Sep 29, 2017 | Jun 4, 2026 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 14, 2017
Added
Sep 29, 2017
Modified
Jun 4, 2026
Description
FFmpeg before 2017-03-05 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the ff_h264_slice_context_init function in libavcodec/h264dec.c.
Solution
ffmpeg-upgrade-3_3
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