Excessive Iteration Affecting ffmpeg package, versions <3.3.4-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE312-FFMPEG-589508
  • published31 Aug 2017
  • disclosed31 Aug 2017

Introduced: 31 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-14059  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-834  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.12 ffmpeg to version 3.3.4-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ffmpeg package and not the ffmpeg package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.12 relevant fixed versions and status.

In FFmpeg 3.3.3, a DoS in cine_read_header() due to lack of an EOF check might cause huge CPU and memory consumption. When a crafted CINE file, which claims a large "duration" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the image-offset parsing loop would consume huge CPU and memory resources, since there is no EOF check inside the loop.