VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-9717

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.28%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-09-19
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In 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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references