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CVE-2016-10190
Heap-based buffer overflow in libavformat/http.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.5, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2…
Critical9.8EPSS 8.4%
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- mitre
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in libavformat/http.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.5, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote web servers to execute arbitrary code via a negative chunk size in an HTTP response.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.4% · top 5.0% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181220 [SECURITY] [DLA 1611-1] libav security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170201 CVE Request: ffmpeg remote exploitaion results code execution (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170202 Re: CVE Request: ffmpeg remote exploitaion results code execution (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/2a05c8f813de6f2278827734bf8102291e7484aa (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/5992 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 95986 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://ffmpeg.org/security.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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