CVE-2017-9991: Buffer Overflow

First published: Wed Jun 28 2017(Updated: )

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xwd_decode_frame function in libavcodec/xwddec.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.12, 3.0.x before 3.0.8, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, 3.2.x before 3.2.5, and 3.3.x before 3.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
FFmpeg FFmpeg	<=2.8.11
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.0
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.0.1
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.0.2
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.0.3
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.0.4
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.0.5
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.0.6
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.0.7
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.1
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.1.1
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.1.2
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.1.3
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.1.4
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.1.5
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.1.6
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.1.7
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.2
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.2.1
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.2.2
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.2.3
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.2.4
FFmpeg FFmpeg	=3.3

Remedy

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/441026fcb13ac23aa10edc312bdacb6445a0ad06

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