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CVE-2019-9718

Publication date 12 March 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ffmpeg 19.04 disco
Fixed 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1
18.10 cosmic
Fixed 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H