Critical
Security advisory
FFmpeg before 2017-02-04 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the decode_frame_common function in libavcodec/pngdec.c.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-7863
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
FFmpeg before 2017-02-04 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the decode_frame_common function in libavcodec/pngdec.c.
osv:CVE-2017-7863
Complete source record
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