UBUNTU-CVE-2020-22037

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-22037

    Published: 1 Jun 2021Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-22037

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-22037, https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8281, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5472-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-22037, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5167-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ffmpeg

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ffmpeg@7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm3?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm3

    Affected versions

    7:2.7.2-1build1

    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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