Medium
Security advisory
In FFmpeg 3.3.3, a DoS in cine_read_header() due to lack of an EOF check might cause huge CPU and memory consumption. When a crafted CINE file, which claims a large "duration" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the image-offset parsing loop would consume huge CPU and memory resources, since there is no EOF check inside the loop.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-14059
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In FFmpeg 3.3.3, a DoS in cine_read_header() due to lack of an EOF check might cause huge CPU and memory consumption. When a crafted CINE file, which claims a large "duration" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the image-offset parsing loop would consume huge CPU and memory resources, since there is no EOF check inside the loop.
osv:CVE-2017-14059
Complete source record
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