CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16840
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The VC-2 Video Compression encoder in FFmpeg 3.0 and 3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) because of incorrect buffer padding for non-Haar wavelets, related to libavcodec/vc2enc.c and libavcodec/vc2enc_dwt.c.
Affected configurations
• ffmpeg ffmpeg 3.0
• ffmpeg ffmpeg 3.4
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a94cb36ab2ad99d3a1331c9f91831ef593d94f74 git.videolan.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101924 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/94e538aebbc9f9c529e8b1f2eda860cfb8c473b1 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4049 Vendor Advisory
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a94cb36ab2ad99d3a1331c9f91831ef593d94f74 git.videolan.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101924 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/94e538aebbc9f9c529e8b1f2eda860cfb8c473b1 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4049 Vendor Advisory