CVE-2017-7865

critical

Published 2017-04-14 · Modified 2026-05-13

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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

FFmpeg before 2017-01-24 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the ipvideo_decode_block_opcode_0xA function in libavcodec/interplayvideo.c and the avcodec_align_dimensions2 function in libavcodec/utils.c.

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.

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`7:3.2.4-1`
sid	Fixed	`7:3.2.4-1`
forky	Fixed	`7:3.2.4-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`7:3.2.4-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`7:3.2.4-1`
8.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
ffmpeg	ffmpeg	`{"endIncluding":"2.8.9"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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