CVE-2016-10190

Publication date 9 February 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ffmpeg	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 7:2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
libav	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

ebarretto

as of 2018-09-28, no equivalent fix for libav

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
ffmpeg	Upstream: 2a05c8f

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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