CVE-2020-22049 – A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory le

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak in the wtvfile_open_sector function in wtvdec.c.

 

Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-22049

Reference (s):

• DEBIAN:DSA-4990
• URL: https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4990
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=373c1c9b691fd4c6831b3a114a006b639304c2af
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8314
• MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20211114 [SECURITY] [DLA 2818-1] ffmpeg security update