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CVE-2019-9721
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-03-12T09:29:00.577 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:44:13.997

Summary

A denial of service in the subtitle decoder in FFmpeg 3.2 and 4.1 allows attackers to hog the CPU via a crafted video file in Matroska format, because handle_open_brace in libavcodec/htmlsubtitles.c has a complex format argument to sscanf.

Affected products

ffmpeg — ffmpeg

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References

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