cve-2019-9717
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-09-19 20:28
Modified
2024-08-04 22:01
Severity ?
Summary
In Libav 12.3, a denial of service in the subtitle decoder allows attackers to hog the CPU via a crafted video file in Matroska format, because srt_to_ass in libavcodec/srtdec.c has a complex format argument to sscanf.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/libav/libav/blob/df744e3cf66548c9167ea857104a29d2ea92819e/libavcodec/srtdec.c#L90Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lgtm.com/security/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/libav/libav/blob/df744e3cf66548c9167ea857104a29d2ea92819e/libavcodec/srtdec.c#L90Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lgtm.com/security/Third Party Advisory
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