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Vulnerability details: VCID-hc6n-8pnw-83cn
Vulnerability ID VCID-hc6n-8pnw-83cn
Aliases CVE-2019-17542
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.8
Risk 4.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
System Score Found at
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cvssv3.1 7.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17542
cvssv3.1 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17542
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17542
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15919
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13390
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17539
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17542
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-12284
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13904
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-20448
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-20902
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/02f909dc24b1f05cfbba75077c7707b905e63cd2
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00003.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00022.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-65
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4722
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2019-17542 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17542
USN-4431-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4431-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17542
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17542
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.71735
EPSS Score 0.00729
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:29:04.260621+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.10/community.json 37.0.0