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CVE-2016-10191

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.5% 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/rtmppkt.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 attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging failure to check for RTMP packet size mismatches.

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/95989
• https://ffmpeg.org/security.html
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/7d57ca4d9a75562fa32e40766211de150f8b3ee7
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00009.html
• 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/95989
• https://ffmpeg.org/security.html
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/7d57ca4d9a75562fa32e40766211de150f8b3ee7
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00009.html

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