Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in FFmpeg's GIF Decoder

CVE-2016-2330 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

libavcodec/gif.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.6 does not properly calculate a buffer size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .tga file, related to the gif_image_write_image, gif_encode_init, and gif_encode_close functions.

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