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FFmpeg: CVE-2019-9718: Out-of-bounds Read

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FFmpeg: CVE-2019-9718: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/12/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
03/14/2019
Modified
01/06/2021

Description

In FFmpeg 3.2 and 4.1, a denial of service in the subtitle decoder allows attackers to hog the CPU via a crafted video file in Matroska format, because ff_htmlmarkup_to_ass in libavcodec/htmlsubtitles.c has a complex format argument to sscanf.

Solution(s)

  • ffmpeg-upgrade-4_1_2

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