CVE-2008-3162: Ffmpeg

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 9.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the str_read_packet function in libavformat/psxstr.c in FFmpeg before r13993 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted STR file that interleaves audio and video sectors.

Affected products

• Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: version 0.3 only; version 0.3.1 only; version 0.3.2 only; version 0.3.3 only; version 0.3.4 only; version 0.4.0 only; …

Published 2008-07-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.