CVE-2017-16840

CVSS V2 High 7.5 CVSS V3 Critical 9.8
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-16840
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2017-11-21T08:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-02-05T21:55:12
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-125 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 9.8
  • Base Severity
  • CRITICAL
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=a94cb36ab2ad99d3a1331c9f91831ef593d94f74 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101924 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4049 Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/94e538aebbc9f9c529e8b1f2eda860cfb8c473b1 Patch Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16840
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16840
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:24:08 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 23:17:30 2017-11-21T08:29Z 2017-11-21T08:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 23:17:30 2021-02-05T21:55:12 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 23:17:30 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated