CVE-2019-9720

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-9720
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
DescriptionA stack-based buffer overflow in the subtitle decoder in Libav 12.3 allows attackers to corrupt the stack via a crafted video file in Matroska format, because srt_to_ass in libavcodec/srtdec.c misuses snprintf.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libav Libav All All All All

References

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libav/srtdec.c at df744e3cf66548c9167ea857104a29d2ea92819e · libav/libav · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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