Medium
Security advisory
A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 idue to a memory leak in the v_frame_alloc function in frame.c.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-22040
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 idue to a memory leak in the v_frame_alloc function in frame.c.
osv:CVE-2020-22040
Complete source record
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