CVE-2017-16840

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16840
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16840.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-16840
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-11-21T08:29:00Z
Modified
2025-11-16T03:42:50.064756Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git / git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Git / github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
94e538aebbc9f9c529e8b1f2eda860cfb8c473b1

Affected versions

Other

N

n0.*

n0.11-dev
n0.12-dev
n0.8

n1.*

n1.1-dev
n1.2-dev
n1.3-dev

n2.*

n2.0
n2.1-dev
n2.2-dev
n2.3-dev
n2.4-dev
n2.5-dev
n2.6-dev
n2.7-dev
n2.8-dev
n2.9-dev

n3.*

n3.0
n3.0.1
n3.0.2
n3.0.3
n3.0.4
n3.0.5
n3.0.6
n3.0.7
n3.0.8
n3.0.9

Database specific

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