vulnerability
FFmpeg: CVE-2019-17542: Out-of-bounds Write
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Oct 14, 2019 | Oct 21, 2019 | Apr 17, 2026 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 14, 2019
Added
Oct 21, 2019
Modified
Apr 17, 2026
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.
Solutions
ffmpeg-upgrade-2_8_16ffmpeg-upgrade-3_2_15ffmpeg-upgrade-3_4_7ffmpeg-upgrade-4_0_5ffmpeg-upgrade-4_1_5ffmpeg-upgrade-4_2ffmpeg-upgrade-4_3
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