Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-9719 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Libav
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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. NOTE: Third parties dispute that this is a vulnerability because “no evidence of a vulnerability is provided” and only “a generic warning from a static code analysis” is provided
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/libav/libav/commits/master/libavcodec/srtdec.c
- https://lgtm.com/security/
- https://github.com/libav/libav/blob/df744e3cf66548c9167ea857104a29d2ea92819e/libavcodec/srtdec.c#L113
- https://lgtm.com/projects/g/libav/libav/snapshot/f5f553ca3bdca0c97dd08bbf002f0d8cb193788b/files/libavcodec/srtdec.c?sort=name&dir=ASC&mode=heatmap#xeec693aa6d85853b:1