CVE-2016-10190

critical
Published 2017-02-09 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in libavformat/http.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.5, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote web servers to execute arbitrary code via a negative chunk size in an HTTP response.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10190

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://ffmpeg.org/security.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/1

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/12

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed7:3.2.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed7:3.2.2-1
debian debianforkyfixed7:3.2.2-1
debian debiansidfixed7:3.2.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed7:3.2.2-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ffmpegffmpeg{"endIncluding":"2.8.9"}
ffmpegffmpeg3.0
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.1
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.2
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.3
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.4
ffmpegffmpeg3.1
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.1
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.2
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.3
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.4
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.5
ffmpegffmpeg3.2
ffmpegffmpeg3.2.1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.