libass vulnerabilities

2022-05-0410:38:06

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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)