Security advisory

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  "id": "8e58058876f5ec04fc6b72bb57aa147dafb317b9430a041681b98dc5377ddba6",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2330",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-2330",
    "summary": "libavcodec/gif.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.6 does not properly calculate a buffer size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .tga file, related to the gif_image_write_image, gif_encode_init, and gif_encode_close functions.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-2330",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-2330",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-2330"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "b8fa3ff95d884060f39c5d50e811404fe94b9301"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.8.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "n2.8.5",
            "n2.8.4",
            "n2.8.3",
            "n2.8.2",
            "n2.8.1",
            "n2.8",
            "n2.8-dev",
            "n2.7-dev",
            "n2.6-dev",
            "n2.5-dev",
            "n2.4-dev",
            "n2.3-dev",
            "n2.2-dev",
            "n2.0",
            "n2.1-dev",
            "n1.3-dev",
            "n1.2-dev",
            "n1.1-dev",
            "n0.12-dev",
            "n0.11-dev",
            "n0.8",
            "N"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2330.json"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "b8fa3ff95d884060f39c5d50e811404fe94b9301"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.8.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
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            "n2.8.4",
            "n2.8.3",
            "n2.8.2",
            "n2.8.1",
            "n2.8",
            "n2.8-dev",
            "n2.7-dev",
            "n2.6-dev",
            "n2.5-dev",
            "n2.4-dev",
            "n2.3-dev",
            "n2.2-dev",
            "n2.0",
            "n2.1-dev",
            "n1.3-dev",
            "n1.2-dev",
            "n1.1-dev",
            "n0.12-dev",
            "n0.11-dev",
            "n0.8",
            "N"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2330.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:39.614442770Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "12.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-2330",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 434712,
  "published_at": "2016-02-12T05:59:04.1+00:00"
}