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CVE-2017-5024

FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform...

5.5 MediumFix available

FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

1.31%Up 0.3 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.5

FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

Record
CVE-2017-5024
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

Record
CVE-2017-5024
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-14134 No score

FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

Record
EUVD-2017-14134
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-r7gq-p438-29xg 5.5

FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform...

FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

Record
GHSA-r7gq-p438-29xg
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2017-5024 5.5

FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2017-5024
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 5.5

FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

Record
CVE-2017-5024
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-5024 5.5

FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5024
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVRHSA-2017:0206 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: chromium-browser security update

Record
RHSA-2017:0206
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-5024 5.5

FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5024
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0111 No score

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerability

Chromium-browser 57.0.2987.133 fixes security issues:

Multiple flaws were found in the way Chromium 55 processes various types of web content, where loading a web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2017-5006, CVE-2017-5007, CVE-2017-5008, CVE-2017-5009, CVE-2017-5010, CVE-2017-5011, CVE-2017-5012, CVE-2017-5013, CVE-2017-5014, CVE-2017-5015, CVE-2017-5016, CVE-2017-5017, CVE-2017-5018, CVE-2017-5019, CVE-2017-5020, CVE-2017-5021, CVE-2017-5022, CVE-2017-5023, CVE-2017-5024, CVE-2017-5025, CVE-2017-5026, CVE-2017-5027, CVE-2017-5029, CVE-2017-5030, CVE-2017-5031, CVE-2017-5032, CVE-2017-5033, CVE-2017-5034, CVE-2017-5035, CVE-2017-5036, CVE-2017-5037, CVE-2017-5038, CVE-2017-5039, CVE-2017-5040, CVE-2017-5041, CVE-2017-5042, CVE-2017-5043, CVE-2017-5044, CVE-2017-5045, CVE-2017-5046, CVE-2017-5052, CVE-2017-5053, CVE-2017-5054, CVE-2017-5055, CVE-2017-5056)

Record
MGASA-2017-0111
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2018-0008 No score

Updated ffmpeg packages fix security vulnerability

This update provides ffmpeg version 2.4.14, which fixes several security vulnerabilities and other bugs which were corrected upstream.

Record
MGASA-2018-0008
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2017:0565-1 No score

Security update of chromium

Google chromium was updated to 56.0.2924.87:

  • Various small fixes
  • Disabled option to enable/disable plugins in the chrome://plugins
  • Changed the build requirement of libavformat to library version 57.41.100, as included in ffmpeg 3.1.1, as only this version properly supports the public AVStream API 'codecpar'.

It also contains the version update to 56.0.2924.76 (bsc#1022049):

  • CVE-2017-5007: Universal XSS in Blink

  • CVE-2017-5006: Universal XSS in Blink

  • CVE-2017-5008: Universal XSS in Blink

  • CVE-2017-5010: Universal XSS in Blink

  • CVE-2017-5011: Unauthorised file access in Devtools

  • CVE-2017-5009: Out of bounds memory access in WebRTC

  • CVE-2017-5012: Heap overflow in V8

  • CVE-2017-5013: Address spoofing in Omnibox

  • CVE-2017-5014: Heap overflow in Skia

  • CVE-2017-5015: Address spoofing in Omnibox

  • CVE-2017-5019: Use after free in Renderer

  • CVE-2017-5016: UI spoofing in Blink

  • CVE-2017-5017: Uninitialised memory access in webm video

  • CVE-2017-5018: Universal XSS in chrome://apps

  • CVE-2017-5020: Universal XSS in chrome://downloads

  • CVE-2017-5021: Use after free in Extensions

  • CVE-2017-5022: Bypass of Content Security Policy in Blink

  • CVE-2017-5023: Type confusion in metrics

  • CVE-2017-5024: Heap overflow in FFmpeg

  • CVE-2017-5025: Heap overflow in FFmpeg

  • CVE-2017-5026: UI spoofing. Credit to Ronni Skansing

  • Enable VAAPI hardware accelerated video decoding.

  • Chromium 55.0.2883.87:

    • various fixes for crashes and specific wesites
    • update Google pinned certificates
Record
openSUSE-SU-2017:0565-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2017:1531-1 No score

Security update for ffmpeg

This update of ffmpeg to version 3.1.8 fixes the following security issues:

  • CVE-2016-9561: DoS through huge memory allocation (bsc#1015120)
  • CVE-2016-10191: remote code execution vulnerability (bsc#1022921)
  • CVE-2016-10192: remote code execution vulnerability (bsc#1022922)
  • CVE-2017-5024: Heap overflow
  • CVE-2017-5025: Heap overflow
Record
openSUSE-SU-2017:1531-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1 No score

chromedriver-93.0.4577.82-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the chromedriver-93.0.4577.82-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 No score

ungoogled-chromium-113.0.5672.92-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the ungoogled-chromium-113.0.5672.92-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3180-1 No score

oxide-qt vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, spoof the webview URL or other UI components, bypass same origin restrictions or other security restrictions, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5006, CVE-2017-5007, CVE-2017-5008, CVE-2017-5009, CVE-2017-5010, CVE-2017-5011, CVE-2017-5012, CVE-2017-5014, CVE-2017-5017, CVE-2017-5019, CVE-2017-5022, CVE-2017-5023, CVE-2017-5024, CVE-2017-5025, CVE-2017-5026)

Record
USN-3180-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.3
before 2.8.11-r0
2.8.11-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.4
before 3.0.7-r0
3.0.7-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.5
before 3.1.7-r0
3.1.7-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.6
before 3.2.4-r0
3.2.4-r0
ffmpeg
Debian:12
before 7:3.2.4-1
7:3.2.4-1
ffmpeg
Debian:13
before 7:3.2.4-1
7:3.2.4-1
ffmpeg
Debian:14
before 7:3.2.4-1
7:3.2.4-1
chromium-browser
Debian:8
before 56.0.2924.76-1~deb8u1, plus listed versions
41.0.2272.118-142.0.2311.135-142.0.2311.135-1~deb8u142.0.2311.135-242.0.2311.90-1
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42.0.2311.90-1~deb8u142.0.2311.90-243.0.2357.124-143.0.2357.124-243.0.2357.124-343.0.2357.130-143.0.2357.65-143.0.2357.65-1~deb8u143.0.2357.81-144.0.2403.107-144.0.2403.107-244.0.2403.157-144.0.2403.89-144.0.2403.89-1~deb8u145.0.2454.101-145.0.2454.85-145.0.2454.85-1~deb8u146.0.2490.13-146.0.2490.71-146.0.2490.71-1~deb8u147.0.2526.111-147.0.2526.16-147.0.2526.73-147.0.2526.73-1~deb8u147.0.2526.80-147.0.2526.80-1~deb8u147.0.2526.80-247.0.2526.80-348.0.2564.116-148.0.2564.116-1~deb8u148.0.2564.23-148.0.2564.82-148.0.2564.82-1~deb8u148.0.2564.82-249.0.2623.108-149.0.2623.108-1~deb8u149.0.2623.108-249.0.2623.75-149.0.2623.75-1~deb8u149.0.2623.75-249.0.2623.87-149.0.2623.87-1~deb8u150.0.2661.75-150.0.2661.75-1~deb8u150.0.2661.75-2
56.0.2924.76-1~deb8u1
chromium-browser-stable
Mageia:5
before 57.0.2987.133-1.mga5
57.0.2987.133-1.mga5
ffmpeg
Mageia:5
before 2.4.14-1.mga5
2.4.14-1.mga5
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
ffmpeg
Mageia:5
before 2.4.14-1.mga5.tainted
2.4.14-1.mga5.tainted
chromium-browser
Red Hat:rhel_extras:6
before 0:56.0.2924.76-1.el6
0:56.0.2924.76-1.el6
chromium-browser-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_extras:6
before 0:56.0.2924.76-1.el6
0:56.0.2924.76-1.el6
chromium-browser
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172, plus listed versions
29.0.1547.65-0ubuntu231.0.1650.63-0ubuntu1~20131204.132.0.1700.107-0ubuntu1~20140204.977.133.0.1750.152-0ubuntu1~pkg995.134.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2
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36.0.1985.125-0ubuntu1.14.04.0~pkg102937.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg104237.0.2062.120-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg104938.0.2125.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.106139.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.106440.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.106840.0.2214.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.106941.0.2272.76-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.107643.0.2357.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.108943.0.2357.130-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.109244.0.2403.89-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.109545.0.2454.85-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.109745.0.2454.101-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.109947.0.2526.73-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.110647.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.110748.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.110848.0.2564.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.111149.0.2623.87-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.111249.0.2623.108-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.111350.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.111751.0.2704.79-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.112152.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.113453.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.114253.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1145
58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172
oxide-qt
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 1.20.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, plus listed versions
1.0.0~bzr437-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr452-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr475-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr490-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr501-0ubuntu1
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1.0.0~bzr501-0ubuntu21.0.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.0.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.1.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.2.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.4.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.31.5.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.21.6.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.7.8-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.7.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.8.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.21.9.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.21.9.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.10.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.11.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.11.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.12.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.12.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.12.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.13.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.14.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.14.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.15.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.15.8-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.16.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.17.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.17.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.18.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.18.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.19.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
1.20.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
chromium-browser
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 56.0.2924.76-0ubuntu0.16.04.1268, plus listed versions
45.0.2454.101-0ubuntu1.120147.0.2526.73-0ubuntu1.121847.0.2526.106-0ubuntu1.122148.0.2564.82-0ubuntu1.122248.0.2564.116-0ubuntu1.1229
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49.0.2623.87-0ubuntu1.123249.0.2623.108-0ubuntu1.123350.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.123751.0.2704.79-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.124252.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.125053.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.125453.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.125755.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263
56.0.2924.76-0ubuntu0.16.04.1268
ffmpeg
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 7:2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, plus listed versions
7:2.7.2-1build17:2.8.1-1ubuntu17:2.8.2-1ubuntu17:2.8.3-17:2.8.4-1
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7:2.8.4-1ubuntu17:2.8.4-1ubuntu27:2.8.4-1ubuntu37:2.8.4-1ubuntu47:2.8.6-1ubuntu17:2.8.6-1ubuntu27:2.8.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.17:2.8.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
7:2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
oxide-qt
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 1.20.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, plus listed versions
1.9.5-0ubuntu11.10.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.11.10.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.21.11.3-0ubuntu31.11.4-0ubuntu1
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1.11.5-0ubuntu11.12.5-0ubuntu11.12.6-0ubuntu11.12.7-0ubuntu11.13.6-0ubuntu11.14.7-0ubuntu11.14.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.15.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.15.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.16.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.17.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.17.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.18.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.19.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
1.20.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
chromium
SUSE:Package Hub 12 SP2
before 56.0.2924.87-5.1
56.0.2924.87-5.1
ffmpeg
SUSE:Package Hub 12 SP2
before 3.1.8-8.1
3.1.8-8.1
chromium
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 93.0.4577.82-1.1
93.0.4577.82-1.1
chromium
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 113.0.5672.92-1.1
113.0.5672.92-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2017-5024 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) in Google Chrome, published January 27, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.31%, the 70th percentile. Fixed in ffmpeg 2.8.11-r0.

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