vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-9721): FFmpeg vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 12, 2019 | May 7, 2019 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 12, 2019
Added
May 7, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
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
ubuntu-upgrade-ffmpegubuntu-upgrade-libavcodec-extra57ubuntu-upgrade-libavcodec-extra58ubuntu-upgrade-libavcodec57ubuntu-upgrade-libavcodec58ubuntu-upgrade-libavdevice57ubuntu-upgrade-libavdevice58ubuntu-upgrade-libavfilter-extra6ubuntu-upgrade-libavfilter-extra7ubuntu-upgrade-libavfilter6ubuntu-upgrade-libavfilter7ubuntu-upgrade-libavformat57ubuntu-upgrade-libavformat58ubuntu-upgrade-libavresample3ubuntu-upgrade-libavresample4ubuntu-upgrade-libavutil55ubuntu-upgrade-libavutil56ubuntu-upgrade-libpostproc54ubuntu-upgrade-libpostproc55ubuntu-upgrade-libswresample2ubuntu-upgrade-libswresample3ubuntu-upgrade-libswscale4ubuntu-upgrade-libswscale5
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