Security Advisory

CVE-2019-9717

6.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date September 19, 2019
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory