UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16840

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16840
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16840.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16840
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:44:15Z
Published
2017-11-21T08:29:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T08:20:52.804550Z
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
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / ffmpeg

Package

Name
ffmpeg
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ffmpeg@7:3.4.1-1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7:3.4.1-1

Affected versions

7:3.*

7:3.3.4-2
7:3.3.4-2build3
7:3.4-2ubuntu2
7:3.4-4
7:3.4-4build1

Ecosystem specific 

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            "binary_name": "ffmpeg",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ffmpeg-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ffmpeg-doc",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libav-tools",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavcodec-dev",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavcodec-extra",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavcodec-extra57",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavcodec-extra57-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavcodec57",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavcodec57-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavdevice-dev",
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        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavdevice57",
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            "binary_name": "libavdevice57-dbgsym",
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        },
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        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavfilter-extra",
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        },
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            "binary_name": "libavfilter-extra6",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
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        {
            "binary_name": "libavfilter6-dbgsym",
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        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavformat-dev",
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        },
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        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavformat57-dbgsym",
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        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavresample-dev",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavresample3",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavresample3-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavutil-dev",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavutil55",
            "binary_version": "7:3.4.1-1"
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            "binary_name": "libavutil55-dbgsym",
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        },
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}