Critical
Security advisory
Integer overflow in the mov_build_index function in libavformat/mov.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.8, 3.0.x before 3.0.3 and 3.1.x before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving sample size.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-6164
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Integer overflow in the mov_build_index function in libavformat/mov.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.8, 3.0.x before 3.0.3 and 3.1.x before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving sample size.
osv:CVE-2016-6164
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:40.230621406Z",
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"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2017-01-23T21:59:01.923+00:00"
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