CVE-2015-8216

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-17

Description

The ljpeg_decode_yuv_scan function in libavcodec/mjpegdec.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.2 omits certain width and height checks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted MJPEG data.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 2.8.1

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d24888ef19ba38b787b11d1ee091a3d94920c76a
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00146.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00009.html
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d24888ef19ba38b787b11d1ee091a3d94920c76a
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00146.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00009.html

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