Denial of Service Vulnerability in FFmpeg Subtitle Decoder via Crafted Matroska Video File

Denial of Service Vulnerability in FFmpeg Subtitle Decoder via Crafted Matroska Video File

CVE-2019-9718 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

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