NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libavutil-devel package, versions <3.4.2-11.17.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.21% (59th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES153-LIBAVUTILDEVEL-2661008
- published 14 Apr 2022
- disclosed 26 Oct 2021
Introduced: 26 Oct 2021
CVE-2020-20896 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.3 libavutil-devel to version 3.4.2-11.17.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libavutil-devel package and not the libavutil-devel package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in function latm_write_packet in libavformat/latmenc.c in Ffmpeg 4.2.1, allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service or other unspecified impacts due to a Null pointer dereference.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-20896.html
- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-October/009650.html
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2021/suse-su-20213521-1/
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186756
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187852
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189166
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190718
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190719
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190722
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190723
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190726
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190729
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190733
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190734
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190735
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-20891/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-20892/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-20895/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-20896/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-20899/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-20902/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-22037/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35965/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3566/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-38092/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-38093/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-38094/
- https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/
- https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8273
- https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/dd01947397b98e94c3f2a79d5820aaf4594f4d3b
CVSS Scores
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