Resource Management Errors Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,3.3.3]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2368999
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-14054  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ffmpeg.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. In libavformat/rmdec.c in FFmpeg 3.3.3, a DoS in ivr_read_header() due to lack of an EOF (End of File) check might cause huge CPU consumption. When a crafted IVR file, which claims a large "len" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the first type==4 loop would consume huge CPU resources, since there is no EOF check inside the loop.

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CVSS Scores

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