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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-10191

Heap-based buffer overflow in libavformat/rtmppkt.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 attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging failure to check for RTMP packet size mismatches.

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1 Nov 2026, 09:03 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2016-10191

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Feb 2017, 15:59 UTC

Heap-based buffer overflow in libavformat/rtmppkt.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 attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging failure to check for RTMP packet size mismatches.

osv:CVE-2016-10191
Complete source record
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