CVE-2017-14171
N/A
Published: September 7, 2017 at 06:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:05 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFFMPEG
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Remediation
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References (4)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3996x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/c24bcb553650b91e9eff15ef6e54ca73de2453b7Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00006.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-834
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