383
VMScore

CVE-2019-9721

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

A denial of service in the subtitle decoder in FFmpeg 3.2 and 4.1 allows malicious users 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.

Vulnerability Trend

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ffmpeg ffmpeg 3.2

ffmpeg ffmpeg 4.1

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 ...