Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 14, 2026

CVE-2016-20099

Description

L-SMASH through 2.14.5 contains an infinite loop vulnerability in vc1_importer_probe() in importer/vc1_imp.c that allows attackers to hang applications via crafted input files. Attackers can supply a file consisting only of zero bytes, which lsmash_read_file() probes automatically, causing indefinite CPU consumption and denial of service.

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Affected products

L Smash/l-smashllm-fuzzy
Range: <=2.14.5

Patches

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References

github.com/l-smash/l-smash/blob/v2.14.5/importer/vc1_imp.cnvd
github.com/l-smash/l-smash/pull/58nvd
hackmd.io/@haind-pwn/l-smash-hevc-importer-double-freenvd
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/l-smash-through-2.14.5-infinite-loop-in-vc-1-importer-probenvd

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