SB2017110906 - Denial of service in FFmpeg



SB2017110906 - Denial of service in FFmpeg

Published: November 9, 2017 Updated: November 30, 2017

Security Bulletin ID SB2017110906
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Partial DoS

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.


1) Double free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15186)

CWE-ID: CWE-415 - Double Free

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


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)

CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


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)

CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


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.