CVE-2017-16840

CRITICAL

9.8

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published11/21/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxffmpeg:ffmpeg

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-125

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a94cb36ab2ad99d3a1331c9f91831ef593d94f74(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101924(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/94e538aebbc9f9c529e8b1f2eda860cfb8c473b1(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4049(cve@mitre.org)

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a94cb36ab2ad99d3a1331c9f91831ef593d94f74(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101924(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/94e538aebbc9f9c529e8b1f2eda860cfb8c473b1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4049(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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