CVE-2016-2330 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2330?

CVE-2016-2330 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 12 Feb 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2330?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Ffmpeg Ffmpeg.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2330?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-2330 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2330 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-2330, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2330, GHSA-q54j-qpvx-333w, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2330.