Security advisory

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  "id": "250542b51c8237ee9dffe4c0b46c4c2ee617aee87c485c538e0a8b5363ea3b79",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7859",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-7859",
    "summary": "FFmpeg before 2017-03-05 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the ff_h264_slice_context_init function in libavcodec/h264dec.c.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-7859",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
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      "id": "CVE-2017-7859",
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          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
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                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.2.4"
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            "n0.12-dev",
            "n0.11-dev",
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            "n3.2.2",
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            "n3.2-dev",
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            "n2.3-dev",
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            "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-2017-7859.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:05.450493054Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=713"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-7859",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440772,
  "published_at": "2017-04-14T04:59:00.353+00:00"
}