CVE-2020-22037

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    CVE-2020-22037

    Published: 1 Jun 2021Last Modified: 20 Oct 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak in avcodec_alloc_context3 at options.c.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00012.html, https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4990, https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4998, https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8281

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 517573a67088b5c7a25c18373434e3448892ee93
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.2-NA

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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