CVE-2017-9992

Summary

CVECVE-2017-9992
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-06-28 06:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-03-20 18:18:00 UTC
DescriptionHeap-based buffer overflow in the decode_dds1 function in libavcodec/dfa.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.12, 3.0.x before 3.0.8, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, 3.2.x before 3.2.5, and 3.3.x 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Ffmpeg Ffmpeg All All All All
Application Ffmpeg Ffmpeg All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4012-1 libav DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
FFmpeg CVE-2017-9992 Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
1345 - oss-fuzz - OSS-Fuzz: Fuzzing the planet - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
avcodec/dfa: Fix off by 1 error · FFmpeg/FFmpeg@f52fbf4 · GitHub MISC github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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