CVE-2016-6920

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

2.77% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 85.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-01-23 21:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 01:43Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-08-23

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

c7a8d44f08676019652184d1f8ad96cf6e3cfa98bbfa2e7650511fe40dabb88f

• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138618/ffmpeg-3.1.2-Heap-Overflow.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• www.securityfocus.com20160907 CVE-2016-6920 ffmpeg exr file Heap Overflowhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539368/100/0/threadedmailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• www.securityfocus.com92664http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92664vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• git.videolan.orghttp://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit%3Bh=79f52a0dbd484aad111e4bf4a4f7047c7ceb6137x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com92790http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92790vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.ffmpeg.orghttps://www.ffmpeg.org/security.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM