vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14055: Excessive Iteration
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 31, 2017 | Aug 22, 2024 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 31, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
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.
Solutions
alpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpegalpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpeg4
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