CVE-2017-16840
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16840
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16840.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-16840
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-11-21T08:29:00.210Z
- Modified
- 2026-05-18T05:49:20.983093669Z
- Severity
-
- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- Database specific
{ "unresolved_ranges": [ { "source": "CPE_FIELD", "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "extracted_events": [ { "last_affected": "9.0" } ], "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux" } ] }- References
Affected packages
Git / git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affectedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "source": "CPE_FIELD", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "3.0" }, { "last_affected": "3.4" } ], "cpe": [ "cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ] }
Git / github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affectedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "source": "CPE_FIELD", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "3.0" }, { "last_affected": "3.4" } ], "cpe": [ "cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ] }