Buffer overflow in FFmpeg - CVE-2016-3062
Published: October 30, 2018 / Updated: June 8, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU110568
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3062
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: ffmpeg.sourceforge.net
Affected software:
FFmpeg
FFmpeg
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
The mov_read_dref function in libavformat/mov.c in Libav before 11.7 and FFmpeg before 0.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via the entries value in a dref box in an MP4 file.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-3062
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00105.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3603
- https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=929
- https://ffmpeg.org/security.html
- https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=7e01d48cfd168c3dfc663f03a3b6a98e0ecba328
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/689e59b7ffed34eba6159dcc78e87133862e3746
- https://libav.org/releases/libav-11.7.changelog
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-08