CVE-2017-7866

Publication date 14 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

FFmpeg before 2017-01-23 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow related to the decode_zbuf function in libavcodec/pngdec.c.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ffmpeg	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 7:3.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 7:2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
libav	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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