Vulnerability · Published Jun 1, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-22038

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the ffmpeg package (Alpine). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 63% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 36.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak in the ff_v4l2_m2m_create_context function in v4l2_m2m.c.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20ffmpeg4.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-22038
Alpine:v3.21ffmpeg4.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-22038
Alpine:v3.22ffmpeg4.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-22038
Alpine:v3.23ffmpeg4.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-22038
Alpine:v3.24ffmpeg4.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-22038
Alpine:v3.20ffmpeg44.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-22038
Alpine:v3.21ffmpeg44.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-22038
Alpine:v3.22ffmpeg44.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-22038
Debian:12ffmpeg7:4.4-5DEBIAN-CVE-2020-22038
Debian:13ffmpeg7:4.4-5DEBIAN-CVE-2020-22038
Debian:14ffmpeg7:4.4-5DEBIAN-CVE-2020-22038

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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References