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.
References
| Link | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/894995c41e0795c7a44f81adc4838dedc3932e65 | Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107384 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3967-1/ | |
| https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/273f2755ce8635d42da3cde0eeba15b2e7842774 |
Configurations
Information
Published : 2019-03-12 09:29
Updated : 2021-01-04 20:15
NVD link : CVE-2019-9721
Mitre link : CVE-2019-9721
JSON object : View
Products Affected
ffmpeg
- ffmpeg
CWE
CWE-125
Out-of-bounds Read
