vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-21688: ffmpeg -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 10, 2021
Added
Aug 17, 2022
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A heap-use-after-free in the av_freep function in libavutil/mem.c of FFmpeg 4.2 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Solution

debian-upgrade-ffmpeg
Title
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