PT-2017-9180 · Libav · Libav

Agostino Sarubbo + 1 · Published 2017-02-15 · Updated 2017-02-17 · CVE-2016-7393

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 Libav versions prior to 11.5

Description The issue is a stack-based buffer overflow in the aac sync function, located in aac parser.c, which can be triggered by a crafted file. This can cause a denial of service due to an out-of-bounds read.

Recommendations For versions prior to 11.5, update to version 11.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-7393

DLA-644-1

Affected Products

Libav

References · 11

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7393 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7393 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7393 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7393 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/10/5 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7393 · Vendor Advisory
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/20/libav-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-aac_sync-aac_parser-c · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7393 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7393 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fb1473080223a634b8ac2cca48a632d037a0a69d · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/92902 · Note