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CVE-2017-9987

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-06-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function hpel_motion in mpegvideo_motion.c in libav 12.1. A crafted input can lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Affected products

• libav: 12.1

References

• https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1067
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00000.html
• https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1067
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00000.html

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