CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2018-14395 — Debian Debian Linux security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.5

libavformat/movenc.c in FFmpeg 3.2 and 4.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash caused by a divide-by-zero error) with a user crafted audio file when converting to the MOV audio format.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2018-07-19
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-369

Affected products

  • debian / debian_linux / 9.0
  • ffmpeg / ffmpeg / 3.2
  • ffmpeg / ffmpeg / 4.0

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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