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CVE-2017-16840

Date: November 21, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (7)

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16840
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16840
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/94e538aebbc9f9c529e8b1f2eda860cfb8c473b1
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4049
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a94cb36ab2ad99d3a1331c9f91831ef593d94f74
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101924
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-16840

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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