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.

This update for ffmpeg fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed: CVE-2019-17542: Fixed a heap-buffer overflow in vqa_decode_chunk due to an out-of-array access (bsc#1154064).

CVE-2019-12730: Fixed an uninitialized use of variables due to an improper check (bsc#1137526).

CVE-2019-9718: Fixed a denial of service in the subtitle decode (bsc#1129715).

CVE-2018-13301: Fixed a denial of service while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4 (bsc#1100352).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for ffmpeg fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-17542: Fixed a heap-buffer overflow in vqa_decode_chunk due to an out-of-array access (bsc#1154064).

CVE-2019-12730: Fixed an uninitialized use of variables due to an improper check (bsc#1137526).

CVE-2019-9718: Fixed a denial of service in the subtitle decode (bsc#1129715).

CVE-2018-13301: Fixed a denial of service while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4 (bsc#1100352).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FFmpeg multimedia framework, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if malformed files/streams are processed.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3967-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that FFmpeg contained multiple security issues when handling certain multimedia files.
    If a user were tricked into opening a crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause a denial of service     via application crash.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
138253	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ffmpeg (SUSE-SU-2019:3184-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
131756	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ffmpeg (SUSE-SU-2019:3184-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
125344	Debian DSA-4449-1 : ffmpeg - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
124678	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : FFmpeg vulnerabilities (USN-3967-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2019-9718

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