vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-9718): FFmpeg vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 12, 2019
Added
May 7, 2019
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

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