CVE-2020-22037

Publication date 1 June 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak in avcodec_alloc_context3 at options.c.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ffmpeg 22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Fixed 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
ffmpeg

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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