Out-of-bounds read in FFmpeg - CVE-2017-16840
Published: November 28, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9431
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16840
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: ffmpeg.sourceforge.net
Affected software:
FFmpeg
FFmpeg
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in the VC-2 Video Compression encoder due to incorrect buffer padding for non-Haar wavelets, related to libavcodec/vc2enc.c and libavcodec/vc2enc_dwt.c. A remote attacker can trigger out-of-bounds read and cause the service to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-16840
Update to version 3.4.