CVE-2019-17542
CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: October 14, 2019 at 01:09 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:24 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxFFMPEG
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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%v < 2.8.163.2 ≤ v < 3.2.153.4 ≤ v < 3.4.74.0 ≤ v < 4.0.54.1 ≤ v < 4.1.5
Affected range stops below 2.8.16, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 3.2.15, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 3.4.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.0.5, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.1.5, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15919x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/02f909dc24b1f05cfbba75077c7707b905e63cd2Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00003.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00022.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-65Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4431-1/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4722CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787
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