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LibASS vulnerabilities

2022-05-0400:00:00
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12

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

7.8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.026 Low

EPSS

Percentile

90.4%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
  • Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

  • libass - Portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA subtitle format

Details

It was discovered that LibASS incorrectly handled certain ASS files. A remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. One of
the issues, CVE-2016-7970, only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
(CVE-2016-7969, CVE-2016-7970, CVE-2016-7972)

It was discovered that LibASS incorrectly handled parsing operations for
specific nested character strings. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause a denial of service. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2020-24994)

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu16.04noarchlibass5< 0.13.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu16.04noarchlibass-dev< 0.13.1-1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu16.04noarchlibass5< 0.13.1-1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu16.04noarchlibass5-dbgsym< 0.13.1-1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu14.04noarchlibass4< 0.10.1-3ubuntu1+esm1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu14.04noarchlibass-dev< 0.10.1-3ubuntu1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu14.04noarchlibass4< 0.10.1-3ubuntu1UNKNOWN

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

7.8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.026 Low

EPSS

Percentile

90.4%