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.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201606-09 (FFmpeg: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FFmpeg. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code or cause a       Denial of Service condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted media file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
91703	GLSA-201606-09 : FFmpeg: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
90349	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : libav vulnerabilities (USN-2944-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2016-2330

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Tenable Plugins

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