DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9718

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9718
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9718.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9718
Upstream
Published
2019-03-12T09:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:38Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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 ffhtmlmarkupto_ass in libavcodec/htmlsubtitles.c has a complex format argument to sscanf.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / ffmpeg

Package

Name
ffmpeg
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ffmpeg?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7:4.1.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:12 / ffmpeg

Package

Name
ffmpeg
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ffmpeg?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7:4.1.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:13 / ffmpeg

Package

Name
ffmpeg
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ffmpeg?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7:4.1.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:14 / ffmpeg

Package

Name
ffmpeg
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ffmpeg?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7:4.1.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}