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CVE-2017-16840
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-11-21T08:29:00.210 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:10:00.190

Summary

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

ffmpeg — ffmpeg

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References

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