vulnerability
FFmpeg: CVE-2017-16840: Unspecified Security Vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Nov 21, 2017 | Dec 11, 2017 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 21, 2017
Added
Dec 11, 2017
Modified
Aug 11, 2025
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.
Solutions
ffmpeg-upgrade-3_0_10ffmpeg-upgrade-3_2_10ffmpeg-upgrade-3_3_6ffmpeg-upgrade-3_4_1
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