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critical9.8

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 …

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
FfmpegFfmpeg
Versions 3.0, 3.4
DebianDebian Linux
Version 9.0

Weakness classification

References