CVE-2017-14170

Description

In libavformat/mxfdec.c in FFmpeg 3.3.3 -> 2.4, a DoS in mxf_read_index_entry_array() due to lack of an EOF (End of File) check might cause huge CPU consumption. When a crafted MXF file, which claims a large "nb_index_entries" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the loop would consume huge CPU resources, since there is no EOF check inside the loop. Moreover, this big loop can be invoked multiple times if there is more than one applicable data segment in the crafted MXF file.

References

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100700

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/900f39692ca0337a98a7cf047e4e2611071810c2

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/f173cdfe669556aa92857adafe60cbe5f2aa1210

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

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3