CVE-2021-38114

Summary

CVECVE-2021-38114
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-04 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:37:00 UTC
Descriptionlibavcodec/dnxhddec.c in FFmpeg 4.4 does not check the return value of the init_vlc function, a similar issue to CVE-2013-0868.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-252

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 4.4 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4998-1 ffmpeg DEBIAN www.debian.org
[FFmpeg-devel,v1,1/1] check and propagate function return value - Patchwork MISC patchwork.ffmpeg.org
avcodec/dnxhddec: check and propagate function return value · FFmpeg/FFmpeg@7150f95 · GitHub MISC github.com
[FFmpeg-devel,v1,1/1] check and propagate function return value - Patchwork patchwork.ffmpeg.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4990-1 ffmpeg DEBIAN www.debian.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2742-1] ffmpeg security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178763 Debian Security Update for ffmpeg (DLA 2742-1)
  • 178827 Debian Security Update for ffmpeg (DSA 4990-1)
  • 178860 Debian Security Update for ffmpeg (DSA 4998-1)
  • 182055 Debian Security Update for ffmpeg (CVE-2021-38114)
  • 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
  • 751079 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ffmpeg (SUSE-SU-2021:2929-1)
  • 751102 OpenSUSE Security Update for ffmpeg (openSUSE-SU-2021:2919-1)
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