Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libav  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBAV-1591605
  • published12 May 2023
  • disclosed28 Jul 2019

Introduced: 28 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-14371  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libav package and not the libav package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An issue was discovered in Libav 12.3. There is an infinite loop in the function mov_probe in the file libavformat/mov.c, related to offset and tag.