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CVE-2016-6832

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ff_audio_resample function in resample.c in libav before 11.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to buffer resizing.

Affected products

• libav: through 11.3

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/13/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/1
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/07/libav-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-ff_audio_resample-resample-c/
• https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825
• https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0ac8ff618c5e6d878c547a8877e714ed728950ce
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/13/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/1
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/07/libav-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-ff_audio_resample-resample-c/
• https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825
• https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0ac8ff618c5e6d878c547a8877e714ed728950ce

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