Unchecked Return Value The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ffmpeg  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2104-FFMPEG-1536838
  • published6 Aug 2021
  • disclosed4 Aug 2021

Introduced: 4 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-38114  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-252  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:21.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ffmpeg package and not the ffmpeg package as distributed by Ubuntu.

libavcodec/dnxhddec.c in FFmpeg 4.4 does not check the return value of the init_vlc function, a similar issue to CVE-2013-0868.