7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-16803

Published: 13/11/2017 Updated: 27/11/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

In Libav up to and including 11.11 and 12.x up to and including 12.1, the smacker_decode_tree function in libavcodec/smacker.c does not properly restrict tree recursion, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (bitstream.c:build_table() out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted Smacker stream.

Vulnerability Trend

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libav libav 12.0

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libav libav 12.1

Vendor Advisories

Several security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and decoders of the libav multimedia library A full list of the changes is available at gitlibavorg/?p=libavgit;a=blob;f=Changelog;hb=refs/tags/v1112 For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 6:1112-1~deb8u1 We recommend that you u ...