CVE-2016-8675

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8675

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8675.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8675

Downstream

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8675

Published

2017-02-15T21:59:00.357Z

Modified

2025-11-14T04:50:50.078979Z

Severity

5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

The getvlc2 function in getbits.h in Libav before 11.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted mp3 file, possibly related to startcode sequences during m4v detection.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libav/libav

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://github.com/libav/libav
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Fixed

e5b019725f53b79159931d3a7317107cbbfd0860

Affected versions

dev14.*

dev14.2

v0.*

v0.7

v0.7b1

v0.7b2

v0.7rc1

v0.8

v0.8b1

v0.8b2

Other

v10_alpha1

v10_alpha2

v10_beta1

v11_alpha1

v11_alpha2

v11_beta1

v11_dev0

v12_dev0

v9_beta1

v9_beta2

v9_beta3

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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        "digest": {
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                "239633447114481679835775621707483041135",
                "11291889930034608089616714022836546254",
                "99106633299237376193173656402539085251",
                "336722905847517177462785648080400559155",
                "13778668871422286883308215251849905423",
                "241465393658360743125963036776765630424",
                "296174214188742991122586453178002203646",
                "83486387580032572371839461737775151824",
                "285141421795515565073026816415658987073",
                "129088873199073268276711779281431234541",
                "224930657538715393918074217486063946203"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "libavformat/m4vdec.c"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2016-8675-3b92c3ec",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/e5b019725f53b79159931d3a7317107cbbfd0860"
    },
    {
        "digest": {
            "length": 636.0,
            "function_hash": "187451337293397042913815863985845387980"
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "libavformat/m4vdec.c",
            "function": "mpeg4video_probe"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2016-8675-ba51d928",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/e5b019725f53b79159931d3a7317107cbbfd0860"
    }
]