Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ffmpeg package, versions <7:4.3.1-6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.18% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-FFMPEG-5679399
  • published4 Jan 2021
  • disclosed4 Jan 2021

Introduced: 4 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-35965  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 ffmpeg to version 7:4.3.1-6 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

decode_frame in libavcodec/exr.c in FFmpeg 4.3.1 has an out-of-bounds write because of errors in calculations of when to perform memset zero operations.

CVSS Scores

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