CVE-2017-16840: 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…

PriorityP342critical9.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

3.33%

87.4th percentile

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

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	ffmpeg	< ffmpeg 7:3.4.1-1 (bookworm)	ffmpeg 7:3.4.1-1 (bookworm)
ffmpeg	ffmpeg	—	—
ffmpeg	ffmpeg	—	—
ffmpeg	ffmpeg	>= 0 < 7:3.4.1-1	7:3.4.1-1
ffmpeg	ffmpeg	>= 0 < 7:3.4.1-1	7:3.4.1-1
ffmpeg	ffmpeg	>= 0 < 7:3.4.1-1	7:3.4.1-1
ffmpeg	ffmpeg	>= 0 < 7:3.4.1-1	7:3.4.1-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.19.8CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.5HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv9.8CRITICAL

vendor_debian9.8CRITICAL

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