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CVE-2017-7862

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 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: 2017-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

FFmpeg before 2017-02-07 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the decode_frame function in libavcodec/pictordec.c.

Affected products

• FFmpeg: through 2.8.10

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4012
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97676
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=559
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/8c2ea3030af7b40a3c4275696fb5c76cdb80950a
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-19
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4012
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97676
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=559
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/8c2ea3030af7b40a3c4275696fb5c76cdb80950a
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-19

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