CVE-2018-14347

Published: 17 July 2018

GNU Libextractor before 1.7 contains an infinite loop vulnerability in EXTRACTOR_mpeg_extract_method (mpeg_extractor.c).

From the Ubuntu security team

It was discovered that Libextractor incorrectly handled malformed files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 6.5

Package	Release	Status
libextractor Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needed (1:1.7-1)

	Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)	Not vulnerable (1:1.7-1)
	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Not vulnerable (1:1.7-1)
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Not vulnerable (1:1.7-1)
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Needed
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Released (1:1.3-4+deb9u3build0.16.04.1)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist (trusty was needs-triage)

Canonical is offering Ubuntu 14.04 Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) for security fixes and essential packages.