CVE-2019-17542 (NVD)

2019-10-14

FFmpeg before 4.2 has a heap-based buffer overflow in vqa_decode_chunk because of an out-of-array access in vqa_decode_init in libavcodec/vqavideo.c.

Products Ubuntu_linux, Debian_linux, Ffmpeg
Type Improper Validation of Array Index (CWE-129)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Patches https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/02f909dc24b1f05cfbba75077c7707b905e63cd2
Links • https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-65
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4431-1/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00003.html
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15919
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4722