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FFmpeg: CVE-2020-20896: NULL Pointer Dereference

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FFmpeg: CVE-2020-20896: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/20/2021
Created
09/28/2021
Added
09/27/2021
Modified
11/25/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in function latm_write_packet in libavformat/latmenc.c in Ffmpeg 4.2.1, allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service or other unspecified impacts due to a Null pointer dereference.

Solution(s)

  • ffmpeg-upgrade-3_4_10
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-4_1_9
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-4_2_6
  • ffmpeg-upgrade-4_3

References

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