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CVE-2017-7866 (GCVE-0-2017-7866)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-14 04:30 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:19
VLAI
Summary
FFmpeg before 2017-01-23 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow related to the decode_zbuf function in libavcodec/pngdec.c.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2017-04-14 00:00
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