PT-2017-17577 · FFmpeg · Libav

Published 2017-03-21 · Updated 2017-11-04 · CVE-2017-7208

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.1

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libav versions 9.21

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted h264 video file. This is due to a buffer over-read in the decode residual function in libavcodec.

Recommendations For libav version 9.21, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-7208

DLA-1142-1

DSA-4012-1

Affected Products

Libav

References · 18

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8365 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4012-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7208 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7208 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7208 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9992 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7862 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7208 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7208 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-4012-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libav · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7208 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-01553 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4012 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/97005 · Note