vulnerability

FFmpeg: CVE-2020-22016: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 27, 2021
Added
Jun 7, 2021
Modified
Apr 17, 2026

Description

A heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in FFmpeg 4.2 at libavcodec/get_bits.h when writing .mov files, which might lead to memory corruption and other potential consequences.

Solutions

ffmpeg-upgrade-2_8_20ffmpeg-upgrade-3_2_18ffmpeg-upgrade-3_4_11ffmpeg-upgrade-4_1_5ffmpeg-upgrade-4_2_2ffmpeg-upgrade-4_3
Title
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