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 of incorrect buffer padding for non-Haar wavelets, related to libavcodec/vc2enc.c and libavcodec/vc2enc_dwt.c.

CVSS v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS v2.0 7.5 HIGH

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CVSS v3.0 : CRITICAL

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

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CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=a94cb36ab2ad99d3a1331c9f91831ef593d94f74	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101924	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4049	Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/94e538aebbc9f9c529e8b1f2eda860cfb8c473b1	Patch Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.4:::::::*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2017-11-21 00:29

Updated : 2021-02-05 13:55

NVD link : CVE-2017-16840

Mitre link : CVE-2017-16840

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-125

Out-of-bounds Read

Products Affected

debian

debian_linux

ffmpeg

ffmpeg

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