CVE-2017-16840

Published Nov 21, 2017 CVSS 3.1 · 9.8 Critical EPSS 3.3% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4049-1 ffmpeg security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-8014 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.
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 8:35 PM
Reserved
Nov 15, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 21, 2017, 8:29 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:10 AM