CVE-2019-9721

Description

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3967-1/

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/273f2755ce8635d42da3cde0eeba15b2e7842774

https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/894995c41e0795c7a44f81adc4838dedc3932e65

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107384

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3