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FFmpeg: CVE-2022-3109: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 16, 2022
Added
Dec 22, 2022
Modified
Jun 4, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the FFmpeg package, where vp3_decode_frame in libavcodec/vp3.c lacks check of the return value of av_malloc() and will cause a null pointer dereference, impacting availability.

Solutions

ffmpeg-upgrade-3_4_13ffmpeg-upgrade-4_1_11ffmpeg-upgrade-4_2_9ffmpeg-upgrade-4_3_6ffmpeg-upgrade-4_4_4ffmpeg-upgrade-5_0_3ffmpeg-upgrade-5_1
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