CVE-2019-17542

moderate-risk
Published 2019-10-14

FFmpeg before 4.2 has a heap-based buffer overflow in vqa_decode_chunk because of an out-of-array access in vqa_decode_init in libavcodec/vqavideo.c.

Do I need to act?

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0.81% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (7)

Affected Vendors

Debian Canonical Ffmpeg

References (14)

Issue Tracking https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15919
Patch https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/02f909dc24b1f05cfbba75077c7707b905e63cd2
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00003.html
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00022.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-65
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4431-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4722
Issue Tracking https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15919
Patch https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/02f909dc24b1f05cfbba75077c7707b905e63cd2
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00003.html
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00022.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-65
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4431-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4722
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moderate-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 3/34 · Minimal
Exposure 14/34 · Moderate