Use After Free Affecting ffmpeg package, versions <4.3-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.28% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE324-FFMPEG-17299863
  • published11 Jun 2026
  • disclosed7 Jun 2020

Introduced: 7 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-13904  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.24 ffmpeg to version 4.3-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ffmpeg package and not the ffmpeg package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.24 relevant fixed versions and status.

FFmpeg 2.8 and 4.2.3 has a use-after-free via a crafted EXTINF duration in an m3u8 file because parse_playlist in libavformat/hls.c frees a pointer, and later that pointer is accessed in av_probe_input_format3 in libavformat/format.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1