CVE-2020-22054

Publication date 2 June 2021

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

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

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ffmpeg 22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 7:3.4.8-0ubuntu0.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm4
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
ffmpeg

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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