CVE-2017-14171

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/c24bcb553650b91e9eff15ef6e54ca73de2453b7

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00006.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3996

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-09-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium