Name: CVE-2020-22043: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2021-06-01T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2020-22043, CWE-401, CVSS 6.5, EPSS 0.00209

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak at the fifo_alloc_common function in libavutil/fifo.c.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade ffmpeg	Jul 30, 2024	Jun 1, 2021
Ffmpeg	—	Upgrade to FFmpeg version 4.3	Jun 9, 2021	Jun 1, 2021
Suse	—	Upgrade libavfilter6-32bitUpgrade libpostproc54-32bitUpgrade libpostproc54Upgrade libpostproc-develUpgrade libavcodec57-32bitUpgrade libavformat-develUpgrade libavcodec57Upgrade libavdevice57-32bitUpgrade libavutil-develUpgrade libswresample-develUpgrade libswresample2Upgrade libswscale-develUpgrade libavresample-develUpgrade libavfilter-develUpgrade ffmpegUpgrade ffmpeg-private-develUpgrade libswresample2-32bitUpgrade libavfilter6Upgrade libswscale4-32bitUpgrade libavdevice-develUpgrade libavcodec-develUpgrade libavresample3-32bitUpgrade libavutil55-32bitUpgrade libavformat57Upgrade libavutil55Upgrade libavresample3Upgrade libavformat57-32bitUpgrade libavdevice57Upgrade libswscale4	Jul 15, 2021	Jun 1, 2021
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade libavdevice-ffmpeg56 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavresample-ffmpeg2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswscale-ffmpeg3 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-extra57 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter-extra6 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libav-tools (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade ffmpeg (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswresample-ffmpeg1 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-extra58 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswscale5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter-extra7 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat58 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavresample4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavdevice57 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavutil56 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec58 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libpostproc-ffmpeg53 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter-ffmpeg5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswresample2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswresample3 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavdevice58 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter-extra (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter6 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter7 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavutil-ffmpeg54 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec57 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-ffmpeg56 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat57 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libpostproc54 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libpostproc55 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswscale4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavresample3 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-extra (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat-ffmpeg56 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavutil55 (Ubuntu Pro)	Oct 13, 2023	Jun 1, 2021

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CVSS Details

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