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CVE-2017-16840 Details

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a94cb36ab2ad99d3a1331c9f91831ef593d94f74 CVE
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/94e538aebbc9f9c529e8b1f2eda860cfb8c473b1 CVEPatchThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4049 CVEVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101924 CVEThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a94cb36ab2ad99d3a1331c9f91831ef593d94f74 [email protected]

see all 8 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-125Out-of-bounds Read[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ffmpeg ffmpeg
3.0
3.4

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux
9.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-16840
NVD Published Date:
Nov 21, 2017
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]