CVE-2016-7499 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-7499?

CVE-2016-7499 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Libav Libav, published on 15 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The sbr_make_f_master function in aacsbr.c in Libav 11.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted mp3 file.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7499?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Libav Libav.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7499?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-7499 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-7499 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7499 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Libav Libav

• CVE-2014-3984 Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Libav before 0.8.12 allow remote attackers to have unknown impact and vectors. Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-9051 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-4609 Integer overflow in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2019-9719 Memory corruption in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2018-5766 Memory corruption in n/a High 8.8

All Libav Libav vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3ppm-97rq-4xwq, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7499.