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TI-2017-12387 Aliases CVE-2017-16840GHSA-m395-w54c-5rmj

The VC-2 Video Compression encoder in FFmpeg 3.0 and 3.4 allows remote attackers to cause…

Priority MEDIUM 48CWE-125Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.03332 88th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 3

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*3.0VulnerableFFmpeg
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*3.4VulnerableFFmpeg
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*9.0VulnerableDebian
  • cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 3.0 Vulnerable ·FFmpeg
  • cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 3.4 Vulnerable ·FFmpeg
  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 9.0 Vulnerable ·Debian

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2017-16840
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-m395-w54c-5rmj

References

Patch 1

Advisory 1

Other 1

Sources

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