CVE-2017-7865

Critical

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

Summary

FFmpeg before January 24, 2017, has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the ipvideo_decode_block_opcode_0xA function in libavcodec/interplayvideo.c and the avcodec_align_dimensions2 function in libavcodec/utils.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 January 24, 2017, to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

FFmpeg before 2017-01-24 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the ipvideo_decode_block_opcode_0xA function in libavcodec/interplayvideo.c and the avcodec_align_dimensions2 function in libavcodec/utils.c.