CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6832
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the ff_audio_resample function in resample.c in libav before 11.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to buffer resizing.
Affected configurations
• libav libav (<= 11.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/13/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/07/libav-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-ff_audio_resample-resample-c/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0ac8ff618c5e6d878c547a8877e714ed728950ce git.libav.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/13/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/07/libav-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-ff_audio_resample-resample-c/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0ac8ff618c5e6d878c547a8877e714ed728950ce git.libav.org