CVE-2017-16840 — Out-of-bounds Read in Ffmpeg

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read4 documents4 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.6%
top 18.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
FfmpegDebian FfmpegDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedNov 21
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/ffmpeg< ffmpeg 7:3.4.1-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianffmpeg/ffmpeg< 7:3.4.1-1+3
▶NVDffmpeg/ffmpeg3.0, 3.4+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-m395-w54c-5rmj: The VC-2 Video Compression encoder in FFmpeg 3↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-16840: The VC-2 Video Compression encoder in FFmpeg 3↗2017-11-21
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-16840: ffmpeg - The VC-2 Video Compression encoder in FFmpeg 3.0 and 3.4 allows remote attackers...↗2017
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