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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369141
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-14055  (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/mvdec.c in FFmpeg 3.3.3, a DoS in mv_read_header() due to lack of an EOF (End of File) check might cause huge CPU and memory consumption. When a crafted MV file, which claims a large "nb_frames" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the loop over the frames would consume huge CPU and memory resources, since there is no EOF check inside the loop.

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