Buffer overflow in FFmpeg - CVE-2016-2213
Published: February 3, 2016 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32156
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2213
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The jpeg2000_decode_tile function in libavcodec/jpeg2000dec.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array read access) via crafted JPEG 2000 data.
Affected software
FFmpeg
Gentoo Linux
ffmpeg (Alpine package)
media-video/ffmpeg
Gentoo Linux
ffmpeg (Alpine package)
media-video/ffmpeg
How to mitigate CVE-2016-2213
Install update from vendor's website.
FFmpeg - update to 2.8.6
ffmpeg (Alpine package) - update to 2.8.11-r0
media-video/ffmpeg - update to 2.8.6
ffmpeg (Alpine package) - update to 2.8.11-r0
media-video/ffmpeg - update to 2.8.6