Critical
Security advisory
FFmpeg before 2017-01-23 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow related to the decode_zbuf function in libavcodec/pngdec.c.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-7866
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
FFmpeg before 2017-01-23 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow related to the decode_zbuf function in libavcodec/pngdec.c.
osv:CVE-2017-7866
Complete source record
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