VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-9991

high
Published 2017-06-28 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xwd_decode_frame function in libavcodec/xwddec.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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed7:3.2.5-1
debian debianbullseyefixed7:3.2.5-1
debian debianforkyfixed7:3.2.5-1
debian debiansidfixed7:3.2.5-1
debian debiantrixiefixed7:3.2.5-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ffmpegffmpeg{"endIncluding":"2.8.11"}
ffmpegffmpeg3.0
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.1
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.2
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.3
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.4
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.5
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.6
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.7
ffmpegffmpeg3.1
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.1
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.2
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.3
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.4
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.5
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.6
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.7
ffmpegffmpeg3.2
ffmpegffmpeg3.2.1
ffmpegffmpeg3.2.2
ffmpegffmpeg3.2.3
ffmpegffmpeg3.2.4
ffmpegffmpeg3.3

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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