CVE-2017-16840
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.6%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-16840
To remediate CVE-2017-16840, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/ffmpeg—upgrade to 7:3.4.1-1 or later
Is CVE-2017-16840 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 7:3.4.1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |