CVE-2017-16840

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.

CVSS v3.1 NVD

9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

3.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 88th percentile

Published

2017-11-21

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• followboy1999/cve1★ · 2020-10-12

Security advisories

• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4049
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101924
• FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/94e538aebbc9f9c529e8b1f2eda860cfb8c473b1

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

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• CVE-2017-16231
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