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CVE-2017-16840

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…

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
9.8
v3.1 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
3.3%
percentile 89%
Public exploits
0
none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

3.33% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.19.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.07.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

  • git.videolan.org /?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a94cb36ab2ad99d3a1331c9f91831ef593d94f74 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/101924 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • debian.org /security/2017/dsa-4049 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN, x_transferred
  • github.com /FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/94e538aebbc9f9c529e8b1f2eda860cfb8c473b1 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

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