CVE-2017-7863

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7863
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7863.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-7863
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-04-14T04:59:00Z
Modified
2026-08-17T05:25:43Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

FFmpeg before 2017-02-04 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the decode_frame_common function in libavcodec/pngdec.c.

Database specific 
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References

Affected packages

Git / git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
16c0d8aa46b6a206d14f1d1010b7487809d54e5f
Database specific
Show details 
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        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.8.10"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

Other
N
n0.*
n0.11-dev
n0.12-dev
n0.8
n1.*
n1.1-dev
n1.2-dev
n1.3-dev
n2.*
n2.0
n2.1-dev
n2.2-dev
n2.3-dev
n2.4-dev
n2.5-dev
n2.6-dev
n2.7-dev
n2.8
n2.8-dev
n2.8.1
n2.8.10
n2.8.2
n2.8.3
n2.8.4
n2.8.5
n2.8.6
n2.8.7
n2.8.8
n2.8.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7863.json"

Git / github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
16c0d8aa46b6a206d14f1d1010b7487809d54e5f
Fixed
e477f09d0b3619f3d29173b2cd593e17e2d1978e
Database specific
Show details 
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        "REFERENCES"
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Affected versions

Other
N
n0.*
n0.11-dev
n0.12-dev
n0.8
n1.*
n1.1-dev
n1.2-dev
n1.3-dev
n2.*
n2.0
n2.1-dev
n2.2-dev
n2.3-dev
n2.4-dev
n2.5-dev
n2.6-dev
n2.7-dev
n2.8
n2.8-dev
n2.8.1
n2.8.10
n2.8.2
n2.8.3
n2.8.4
n2.8.5
n2.8.6
n2.8.7
n2.8.8
n2.8.9
n2.9-dev
n3.*
n3.1-dev
n3.2-dev
n3.3-dev

Database specific

source 
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vanir_signatures_modified 
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