CVE-2016-10192

critical
Published 2017-02-09 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in ffserver.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 attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging failure to check chunk size.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed 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

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ffmpegffmpeg{"endIncluding":"2.8.9"}
ffmpegffmpeg3.0
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.1
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.2
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.3
ffmpegffmpeg3.0.4
ffmpegffmpeg3.1
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.1
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.2
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.3
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.4
ffmpegffmpeg3.1.5
ffmpegffmpeg3.2
ffmpegffmpeg3.2.1

References

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.