CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-21688
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
A heap-use-after-free in the av_freep function in libavutil/mem.c of FFmpeg 4.2 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Affected configurations
• ffmpeg ffmpeg 4.2
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8186 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4998 Third Party Advisory
- https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8186 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4998 Third Party Advisory