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CVE-2016-10190

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in libavformat/http.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.5, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote web servers to execute arbitrary code via a negative chunk size in an HTTP response.

Affected products

• FFmpeg: through 2.8.9; 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.1 (+7)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/12
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95986
• https://ffmpeg.org/security.html
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/2a05c8f813de6f2278827734bf8102291e7484aa
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00009.html
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/5992
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/12
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95986
• https://ffmpeg.org/security.html
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/2a05c8f813de6f2278827734bf8102291e7484aa

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