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CVE-2019-9721 (GCVE-0-2019-9721)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-12 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 22:01
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2019-03-12 00:00
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