Stack-based buffer overflow in Libav 12.3 subtitle decoder via crafted Matroska video file

Stack-based buffer overflow in Libav 12.3 subtitle decoder via crafted Matroska video file

CVE-2019-9720 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

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