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CVE-2020-20451 (GCVE-0-2020-20451)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-25 18:48 – Updated: 2024-08-04 14:22
VLAI
Summary
Denial of Service issue in FFmpeg 4.2 due to resource management errors via fftools/cmdutils.c.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8094 x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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