CVE-2020-22037

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak in avcodec_alloc_context3 at options.c.

CVSS v3.1 NVD

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

CVSS v2.0 NVD

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

1.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 75th percentile

Published

2021-06-01

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8281

Security advisories

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00012.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4990
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4998

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry