CVE-2017-16840 (GCVE-0-2017-16840)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-21 08:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 20:35
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Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-11-21 00:00
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