SB2017110906 - Denial of service in FFmpeg
Published: November 9, 2017 Updated: November 30, 2017
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Double free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15186)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to double free error when processing malicious input. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted AVI file, trick the victim into opening it and cause the service to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
2) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15672)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to out-of-bounds read in the read_header function in libavcodec/ffv1dec.c. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted MP4 file, trick the victim into opening it and cause the service to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
3) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16840)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in the VC-2 Video Compression encoder due to incorrect buffer padding for non-Haar wavelets, related to libavcodec/vc2enc.c and libavcodec/vc2enc_dwt.c. A remote attacker can trigger out-of-bounds read and cause the service to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.