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CVE-2017-7859

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

FFmpeg before 2017-03-05 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the ff_h264_slice_context_init function in libavcodec/h264dec.c.

Affected products

• FFmpeg: through 3.2.4

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97663
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=713
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97663
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=713

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