SB2023082134 - Denial of service in VideoLAN dav1d
Published: August 21, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023082134
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-32570)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in thread_task.c, related to dav1d_decode_frame_exit(). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/tags/1.2.0
- https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/commit/cf617fdae0b9bfabd27282854c8e81450d955efa
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LXZ6CUNJFDJLCFOZHY2TIGMCAEITLCRP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3WGSO7UMOF4MVLQ5H6KIV7OG6ONS377B/