Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [4.3,4.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2368890
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-14212  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 4.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. FFmpeg through 4.3 has a heap-based buffer overflow in avio_get_str in libavformat/aviobuf.c because dnn_backend_native.c calls ff_dnn_load_model_native and a certain index check is omitted.

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