What is CVE-2019-14372?

CVE-2019-14372 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libav, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-07-28.

How severe is CVE-2019-14372?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Libav

CVE-2019-14372

In Libav 12.3, there is an infinite loop in the function wv_read_block_header() in the file wvdec.c.

EPSS: 0.011 (63.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Libav — versions 12.3
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Broken Link)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-14372?: CVE-2019-14372 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libav, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-07-28.
How severe is CVE-2019-14372?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.