CVE-2016-2330

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

libavcodec/gif.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.6 does not properly calculate a buffer size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .tga file, related to the gif_image_write_image, gif_encode_init, and gif_encode_close functions.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04
FFmpeg: through 2.8.5

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=03d83ba34b2070878909eae18dfac0f519503777
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84217
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035010
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=03d83ba34b2070878909eae18dfac0f519503777
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84217
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035010
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09

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