vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-9721: Out-of-bounds Read
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 12, 2019 | Aug 22, 2024 | Dec 22, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 12, 2019
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 22, 2025
Description
A denial of service in the subtitle decoder in FFmpeg 3.2 and 4.1 allows attackers to hog the CPU via a crafted video file in Matroska format, because handle_open_brace in libavcodec/htmlsubtitles.c has a complex format argument to sscanf.
Solutions
alpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpegalpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpeg4
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