CVE-2017-16840

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductFfmpeg
PublishedNov 21, 2017
First seenNov 21, 2017

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
ffmpeg ffmpeg3.0, 3.4—
debian debian_linux9.0—

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