PT-2017-18613 · Mpeg+2 · Libbpg+2

Published 2017-05-11 · Updated 2020-09-02 · CVE-2017-8906

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions x265 versions prior to 2.4 libbpg (affected versions not specified)

Description An integer underflow issue exists in the x86 assembly code for planeClipAndMax() in x265. This can be triggered by a small picture, leading to an integer underflow and resulting in a Denial of Service during the encoding process.

Recommendations For x265 versions prior to 2.4, update to version 2.4 or later to resolve the issue. For libbpg, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Integer Underflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-191

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2415

CVE-2017-8906

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Libbpg

X265

References · 7

• 🔥 https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/issues/345/integer-underflow-in-x265-source-common · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8906 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8906 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8906 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8906 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8906 · Security Note
• https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git/issues/345/integer-underflow-in-x265-source-common · Note