CVE-2016-8710

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An exploitable heap write out of bounds vulnerability exists in the decoding of BPG images in Libbpg library. A crafted BPG image decoded by libbpg can cause an integer underflow vulnerability causing an out of bounds heap write leading to remote code execution. This vulnerability can be triggered via attempting to decode a crafted BPG image using Libbpg.

Affected products

Fabrice Bellard libbpg: 0.9.4, 0.9.7

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95740
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0223/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95740
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0223/

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