CVE-2016-10190
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in libavformat/http.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.5, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote web servers to execute arbitrary code via a negative chunk size in an HTTP response.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 7:3.2.2-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 7:3.2.2-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 7:3.2.2-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 7:3.2.2-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 7:3.2.2-1 |
Application impact
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/12
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95986
- https://ffmpeg.org/security.html
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/2a05c8f813de6f2278827734bf8102291e7484aa
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00009.html
- https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/5992
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10190
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.