High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-24020
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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