7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2017-16840

Published: 21/11/2017 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The VC-2 Video Compression encoder in FFmpeg 3.0 and 3.4 allows remote malicious users 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.

Vulnerability Trend

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ffmpeg ffmpeg 3.0

ffmpeg ffmpeg 3.4

debian debian linux 9.0

Vendor Advisories

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FFmpeg multimedia framework, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if malformed files/streams are processed For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 7:329-1~deb9u1 We recommend that you upgrade your ffmpeg ...
The VC-2 Video Compression encoder in FFmpeg 34 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/vc2encc and libavcodec/vc2enc_dwtc ...

Github Repositories

POC CVE-2017-16231 CVE-2017-16232 CVE-2017-16840 CVE-2019-9116