CVE-2017-9990: Ffmpeg

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

Stack-based buffer overflow in the color_string_to_rgba function in libavcodec/xpmdec.c in FFmpeg 3.3 before 3.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: up to and including 3.3

Published 2017-06-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.