CVE-2016-2330: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only
  • Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: up to and including 2.8.5

Published 2016-02-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.