CVE-2016-2330

Publication date 12 February 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ffmpeg	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu1
	17.10 artful	Fixed 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu1
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu1
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
libav	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 4:0.8.17-0ubuntu0.12.04.2

Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2016-03-31, no equivalent fix in libav

ebarretto

libav not affected according to upstream

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

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

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H