CVE-2016-6832

MEDIUM

Libav < 11.3 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ff_audio_resample function in resample.c in libav before 11.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to buffer resizing.

References (5)

[Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/13/1

[Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/1

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/07/libav-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-ff_audio_resample-resample-c/

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825

[Various Sources] https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0ac8ff618c5e6d878c547a8877e714ed728950ce

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0036

EPSS Percentile 58.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Affected Products (2)

libav/libav < 11.3

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Feb 15, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026