PT-2016-7421 · FFmpeg · Ffmpeg

Lianyihan · Published 2016-10-18 · Updated 2018-01-01 · CVE-2016-7905

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FFmpeg versions prior to 3.1.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by utilizing a crafted AVI file, which results in a NULL pointer being used. This is due to a problem in the read gab2 sub function located in libavformat/avidec.c.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.1.4, update to version 3.1.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-7905

MGASA-2018-0008

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2556-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2560-1

Affected Products

Ffmpeg

References · 24

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:2556-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2016-7905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-71 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0008 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0008.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:2560-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7905 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7905 · Security Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20757 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7905 · Note