CVE-2019-9717

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-9717
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-09-19 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Libav 12.3, a denial of service in the subtitle decoder allows attackers to hog the CPU via a crafted video file in Matroska format, because srt_to_ass in libavcodec/srtdec.c has a complex format argument to sscanf.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libav Libav All All All All

References

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Security Research and CVEs discovered by Semmle - LGTM MISC lgtm.com Third Party Advisory
libav/srtdec.c at df744e3cf66548c9167ea857104a29d2ea92819e · libav/libav · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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