CVE-2017-14056

medium
Published 2017-08-31 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
7.1
VIR risk
6.5

Description

In libavformat/rl2.c in FFmpeg 3.3.3, a DoS in rl2_read_header() due to lack of an EOF (End of File) check might cause huge CPU and memory consumption. When a crafted RL2 file, which claims a large "frame_count" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the loops (for offset and size tables) would consume huge CPU and memory resources, since there is no EOF check inside these loops.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14056

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/96f24d1bee7fe7bac08e2b7c74db1a046c9dc0de

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201709-10

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1:3.3.4-1
debian debianbookwormfixed7:3.3.4-1
debian debianbullseyefixed7:3.3.4-1
debian debianforkyfixed7:3.3.4-1
debian debiansidfixed7:3.3.4-1
debian debiantrixiefixed7:3.3.4-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ffmpegffmpeg3.3.3

References

CWEs

CWE-834

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.