Detections
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CVE-2016-6920

high

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the decode_block function in libavcodec/exr.c in FFmpeg before 3.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving tile positions.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92664

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138618/ffmpeg-3.1.2-Heap-Overflow.html

https://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92790

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539368/100/0/threaded

http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit%3Bh=79f52a0dbd484aad111e4bf4a4f7047c7ceb6137

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-01-23

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03621