CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-17539
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-10-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• ffmpeg ffmpeg (< 3.4.7)
• ffmpeg ffmpeg (>= 4.0 < 4.0.5)
• ffmpeg ffmpeg (>= 4.1 < 4.1.5)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 20.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15733 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/8df6884832ec413cf032dfaa45c23b1c7876670c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00026.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-65 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4431-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4722 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15733 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/8df6884832ec413cf032dfaa45c23b1c7876670c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00026.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-65 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4431-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4722 Third Party Advisory