CVE-2017-9990

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the color_string_to_rgba function in libavcodec/xpmdec.c in FFmpeg 3.3 before 3.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99313Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1466Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/cb243972b121b1ae6b60a78ff55a0506c69f3879Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99313Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1466Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/cb243972b121b1ae6b60a78ff55a0506c69f3879Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jun 28, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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