CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-20450

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: May 25, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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FFmpeg 4.2 is affected by null pointer dereference passed as argument to libavformat/aviobuf.c, which could cause a Denial of Service.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
FfmpegFfmpeg4.2 (including)4.2 (including)
FfmpegUbuntuesm-apps/focal*
FfmpegUbuntufocal*
FfmpegUbuntugroovy*
FfmpegUbuntuhirsute*
FfmpegUbuntutrusty*
FfmpegUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References