CVE-2017-14056

medium

Description

In libavformat/rl2.c in FFmpeg 3.3.3, a DoS in rl2_read_header() due to lack of an EOF (End of File) check might cause huge CPU and memory consumption. When a crafted RL2 file, which claims a large "frame_count" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the loops (for offset and size tables) would consume huge CPU and memory resources, since there is no EOF check inside these loops.

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3996

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100628

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/96f24d1bee7fe7bac08e2b7c74db1a046c9dc0de

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00006.html

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2017-08-31

Updated: 2019-10-03

Type: CWE-834

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: MEDIUM