CVE-2016-9820

NameCVE-2016-9820
Descriptionlibavcodec/mpegvideo_motion.c in libav 11.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving left shift of a negative value.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-791-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libav (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)6:11.12-1~deb8u9fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libavsourcewheezy6:0.8.20-0+deb7u1DLA-791-1
libavsourcejessie(not affected)
libavsource(unstable)(unfixed)unimportant

Notes

[jessie] - libav <not-affected> (The fixing patches are included in the upstream version)
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/12/01/libav-multiple-crashes-from-the-undefined-behavior-sanitizer
https://github.com/asarubbo/poc/blob/master/00036-libav-leftshift-mpegvideo
https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=980
https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=e17bcfbecc268ba00cb55025095d70b1025e6c7d (pre 11.9)
https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=f106f74206e69e9056130da8bddffc39f3878ac3 (pre 11.9)

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