CVE-2017-16840

CRITICAL

FFmpeg 3.0-3.4 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101924
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4049

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0158
EPSS Percentile 81.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
ffmpeg/ffmpeg 3.0
ffmpeg/ffmpeg 3.4
Published Nov 21, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026