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FFmpeg: CVE-2019-17542: Out-of-bounds Write

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FFmpeg: CVE-2019-17542: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/14/2019
Created
10/22/2019
Added
10/21/2019
Modified
08/05/2021

Description

FFmpeg before 4.2 has a heap-based buffer overflow in vqa_decode_chunk because of an out-of-array access in vqa_decode_init in libavcodec/vqavideo.c.

Solution(s)

  • ffmpeg-upgrade-2_8_16
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-3_2_15
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-3_4_7
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-4_0_5
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-4_1_5
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-4_2
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-4_3

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