What is CVE-2020-22044?

CVE-2020-22044 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-06-01.

How severe is CVE-2020-22044?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Ffmpeg

CVE-2020-22044

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak in the url_open_dyn_buf_internal function in libavformat/aviobuf.c.

EPSS: 0.010 (60.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Ffmpeg — versions 4.2
Debian Debian_linux — versions 9.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-22044?: CVE-2020-22044 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-06-01.
How severe is CVE-2020-22044?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.