Vulnerabilities / CVE-2016-10190

critical

CVE-2016-10190

Heap-based buffer overflow in libavformat/http.c in FFmpeg before 2.8. ...

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in libavformat/http.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.5, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote web servers to execute arbitrary code via a negative chunk size in an HTTP response.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.3ffmpeg2.8.11-r0
alpine 3.4ffmpeg3.0.7-r0
debian 11ffmpeg7:3.2.2-1
debian 12ffmpeg7:3.2.2-1
debian 13ffmpeg7:3.2.2-1
debian 14ffmpeg7:3.2.2-1
debian 8libav6:11.12-1~deb8u2
echoffmpeg7:3.2.2-1
root.io debian 11rootio-ffmpeg7:3.2.2-1
root.io debian 12rootio-ffmpeg7:3.2.2-1
ubuntu 16.04ffmpeg7:2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMffmpeg7:2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

References

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