Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in VC-2 Video Compression Encoder in FFmpeg 3.0 and 3.4

Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in VC-2 Video Compression Encoder in FFmpeg 3.0 and 3.4

CVE-2017-16840 · CRITICAL Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

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