vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14171: Excessive Iteration
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Sep 7, 2017 | Aug 22, 2024 | Dec 5, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 7, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025
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.
Solutions
alpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpegalpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpeg4
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