High
Security advisory
FFmpeg version (git commit de8e6e67e7523e48bb27ac224a0b446df05e1640) suffers from a an assertion failure at src/libavutil/mathematics.c.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-38291
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
FFmpeg version (git commit de8e6e67e7523e48bb27ac224a0b446df05e1640) suffers from a an assertion failure at src/libavutil/mathematics.c.
osv:CVE-2021-38291
Complete source record
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