CVE-2017-7859

Critical

Published: 14/04/2017(UTC)Translated: 14/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to unauthorized memory access, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution or application crashes.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update FFmpeg to a version after 2017-03-05 to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

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.