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Debian: CVE-2019-17539: ffmpeg -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-17539: ffmpeg -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/14/2019
Created
07/11/2020
Added
07/10/2020
Modified
07/13/2020

Description

In FFmpeg before 4.2, avcodec_open2 in libavcodec/utils.c allows a NULL pointer dereference and possibly unspecified other impact when there is no valid close function pointer.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-ffmpeg

References

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