NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,3.4.7)[4.0,4.0.5)[4.1,4.1.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.07% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2368959
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Oct 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17539  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 3.4.7, 4.0.5, 4.1.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. In FFmpeg before 4.2, avcodec_open2 in libavcodec/utils.c allows a NULL pointer dereference and possibly unspecified other impact when there is no valid close function pointer.

References

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