CVE-2017-16840

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CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

3%p88

Published

Nov 21, 2017 (Nov 21, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: ffmpeg debian
Products: ffmpeg, debian linux
Weakness: CWE-125
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (3.3%)

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