CVE-2017-9990 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Ffmpeg

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer3 documents3 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 23.38%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
FfmpegDebian Ffmpeg
Timeline
PublishedJun 28
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the color_string_to_rgba function in libavcodec/xpmdec.c in FFmpeg 3.3 before 3.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDffmpeg/ffmpeg3.3
▶debiandebian/ffmpeg

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-rqm7-r328-2xw5: Stack-based buffer overflow in the color_string_to_rgba function in libavcodec/xpmdec↗2022-05-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-9990: ffmpeg - Stack-based buffer overflow in the color_string_to_rgba function in libavcodec/x...↗2017
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