CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-17542
Critical (9.8). EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- ffmpeg:ffmpeg
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15919
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/02f909dc24b1f05cfbba75077c7707b905e63cd2
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00003.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00022.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-65