CVE-2019-9720

CVE-2019-9720, security advisory, suse linux, suse, security, cve

CVE-2019-9720

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

[Previous] [Index] [Next]

Upstream information

CVE-2019-9720 at MITRE

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow in the subtitle decoder in Libav 12.3 allows attackers to corrupt the stack via a crafted video file in Matroska format, because srt_to_ass in libavcodec/srtdec.c misuses snprintf.

---

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.1
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.5
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1151478 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

---

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Sep 20 03:46:26 2019
CVE page last modified: Wed Oct 26 21:52:23 2022