4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2019-9718

Published: 12/03/2019 Updated: 07/10/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

In FFmpeg 3.2 and 4.1, a denial of service in the subtitle decoder allows malicious users 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.

Vulnerability Trend

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ffmpeg ffmpeg 3.2

ffmpeg ffmpeg 4.1

debian debian linux 9.0

canonical ubuntu linux 18.04

canonical ubuntu linux 18.10

canonical ubuntu linux 19.04

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #926666 CVE-2019-9718 CVE-2019-9721 Package: ffmpeg; Maintainer for ffmpeg is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@listsdebianorg>; Source for ffmpeg is src:ffmpeg (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 18:33:07 UTC Severit ...
FFmpeg could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file ...
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FFmpeg multimedia framework, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if malformed files/streams are processed For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 7:3214-1~deb9u1 We recommend that you upgrade your ffmpe ...