Medium severity · published Jun 2, 2021
CVE-2020-22046
A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak in the avpriv_float_dsp_allocl function in libavutil/float_dsp.c
6.5
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak in the avpriv_float_dsp_allocl function in libavutil/float_dsp.c.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.0% · higher than 62% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FF
Ffmpeg · Ffmpeg
4.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-22046
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-22046
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00012.html
Exploit
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8294
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