CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-14171
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-834
Description
In libavformat/nsvdec.c in FFmpeg 2.4 and 3.3.3, a DoS in nsv_parse_NSVf_header() due to lack of an EOF (End of File) check might cause huge CPU consumption. When a crafted NSV file, which claims a large "table_entries_used" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the loop over 'table_entries_used' would consume huge CPU resources, since there is no EOF check inside the loop.
Affected configurations
• ffmpeg ffmpeg 3.3.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-834 Excessive Iteration weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3996 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100706 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/c24bcb553650b91e9eff15ef6e54ca73de2453b7 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00006.html lists.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3996 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100706 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/c24bcb553650b91e9eff15ef6e54ca73de2453b7 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00006.html lists.debian.org