CVE-2017-5049

Publication date 25 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An integer overflow in FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted video file, related to ChunkDemuxer.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 58.0.3029.96-0ubuntu1.1352
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 58.0.3029.96-0ubuntu1.1352
	17.10 artful	Fixed 58.0.3029.96-0ubuntu1.1352
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 58.0.3029.96-0ubuntu0.17.04.1352
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 58.0.3029.96-0ubuntu0.16.10.1347
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 58.0.3029.96-0ubuntu0.14.04.1174
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 58.0.3029.96-0ubuntu0.14.04.1174
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored
oxide-qt	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored Ubuntu touch end-of-life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
ffmpeg	18.10 cosmic	Ignored
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

ebarretto

This problem is actually in Chromium and was fixed there. So setting ffmpeg to ignored.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H