Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [4.3.1,4.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.8% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369085
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Jan 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Jan 2021

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

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 4.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write 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

version 3.1