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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2025-22920

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in FFmpeg before commit 4bf784c allows attackers to trigger a memory corruption via supplying a crafted media file in avformat when processing tile grid group streams. This can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS). This issue affects ffmpeg version prior to 7.0.1.

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CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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Advisory Timeline

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