CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-9717

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-09-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-09-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• libav libav (<= 12.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References