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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-17539: FFmpeg: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 14, 2019
Added
Mar 31, 2020
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

In FFmpeg before 4.2, avcodec_open2 in libavcodec/utils.c allows a NULL pointer dereference and possibly unspecified other impact when there is no valid close function pointer.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-video-ffmpeg
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