What is CVE-2016-2213?

CVE-2016-2213 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-02-03.

How severe is CVE-2016-2213?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Ffmpeg

CVE-2016-2213

The jpeg2000_decode_tile function in libavcodec/jpeg2000dec.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array read access) via crafted JPEG 2000 data.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.018 (76.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Ffmpeg
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-2213?: CVE-2016-2213 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-02-03.
How severe is CVE-2016-2213?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.