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CVE-2017-16840

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Published: Nov 21, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

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9.8
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 5.9
Source: NVD

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 (3)

Ffmpeg
1 product
Ffmpeg
Debian
1 product
Debian Linux
Configuration A
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Ffmpeg
Ffmpeg
Version 3.0
Ffmpeg
Version 3.4
Configuration B
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Debian Linux
Version 9.0

Related CWEs

CWE-125
Out-of-bounds Read
The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

References (8)

Source: cve@mitre.org
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: cve@mitre.org
PatchThird Party Advisory
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
PatchThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory

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