CVE-2017-7859

CRITICAL

FFmpeg < 3.2.4 - Out-of-bounds Write in H.264 Slice Context Initialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=713
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97663

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0099
EPSS Percentile 77.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
ffmpeg/ffmpeg < 3.2.4
Published Apr 14, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026