vulnerability

FFmpeg: CVE-2020-22046: Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference ('Memory Leak')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 2, 2021
Added
Jun 9, 2021
Modified
Apr 17, 2026

Description

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

Solution

ffmpeg-upgrade-4_3
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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