CVE-2016-2330

high

Description

libavcodec/gif.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.6 does not properly calculate a buffer size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .tga file, related to the gif_image_write_image, gif_encode_init, and gif_encode_close functions.

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=03d83ba34b2070878909eae18dfac0f519503777

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84217

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035010

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-02-12

Updated: 2016-12-06

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: HIGH