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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-24020

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in FFMpeg 4.2.3 in dnn_execute_layer_pad in libavfilter/dnn/dnn_backend_native_layer_pad.c due to a call to memcpy without length checks, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:20 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-24020

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 May 2021, 15:15 UTC

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in FFMpeg 4.2.3 in dnn_execute_layer_pad in libavfilter/dnn/dnn_backend_native_layer_pad.c due to a call to memcpy without length checks, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.

osv:CVE-2020-24020
Complete source record
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