CVE-2020-20453

Summary

CVECVE-2020-20453
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-25 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-11-30 22:14:00 UTC
DescriptionFFmpeg 4.2 is affected by a Divide By Zero issue via libavcodec/aaccoder, which allows a remote malicious user to cause a Denial of Service

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-369

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Ffmpeg Ffmpeg 4.2 - All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4998-1 ffmpeg DEBIAN www.debian.org
#8003 (Division by zero at libavcodec/aaccoder.c) – FFmpeg MISC trac.ffmpeg.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2818-1] ffmpeg security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4990-1 ffmpeg DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178827 Debian Security Update for ffmpeg (DSA 4990-1)
  • 178860 Debian Security Update for ffmpeg (DSA 4998-1)
  • 178898 Debian Security Update for ffmpeg (DLA 2818-1)
  • 198828 Ubuntu Security Notification for FFmpeg Vulnerabilities (USN-5472-1)
  • 501548 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg
  • 501848 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg
  • 502284 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg4
  • 504757 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg
  • 504775 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg4
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