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.
Published: 2017-11-21
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 1.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4049-1 ffmpeg security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-8014 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.
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Debian Debian Linux
Ffmpeg Ffmpeg
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:35:21.222Z

Reserved: 2017-11-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-16840

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-11-21T08:29:00.210

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-16840

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