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FFmpeg: CVE-2017-7866: Out-of-bounds Write

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FFmpeg: CVE-2017-7866: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/14/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/29/2017
Modified
05/09/2019

Description

FFmpeg before 2017-01-23 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow related to the decode_zbuf function in libavcodec/pngdec.c.

Solution(s)

  • ffmpeg-upgrade-3_3

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