CVE-2019-14442 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-14442?

CVE-2019-14442 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 30 Jul 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In mpc8_read_header in libavformat/mpc8.c in Libav 12.3, an input file can result in an avio_seek infinite loop and hang, with 100% CPU consumption. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14442?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Libav Libav.

How do I fix CVE-2019-14442?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-14442 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14442 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-f2x8-6mc7-vwrc, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14442.