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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2020-20450

High
7.5/10

Summary

FFmpeg prior to 4.3.3 and 4.4.x prior to 4.4 are affected by null pointer dereference passed as argument to libavformat/aviobuf.c, which could cause a Denial of Service.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published