CVE-2016-5199

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An off by one error resulting in an allocation of zero size in FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.98 for Mac, and 54.0.2840.99 for Windows, and 54.0.2840.100 for Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 54.0.2840.87

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2718.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94196
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037273
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_9.html
https://crbug.com/643948
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-16
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2718.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94196
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037273
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_9.html
https://crbug.com/643948
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-16

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