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FFmpeg: CVE-2020-22048: Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference ('Memory Leak')

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FFmpeg: CVE-2020-22048: 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
06/02/2021
Created
06/11/2021
Added
06/09/2021
Modified
07/28/2021

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak in the ff_frame_pool_get function in framepool.c.

Solution(s)

  • ffmpeg-upgrade-4_3

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