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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-15942

FFmpeg through 4.2 has a "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value" issue in h2645_parse because alloc_rbsp_buffer in libavcodec/h2645_parse.c mishandles rbsp_buffer.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:37 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-15942

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Sept 2019, 16:15 UTC

FFmpeg through 4.2 has a "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value" issue in h2645_parse because alloc_rbsp_buffer in libavcodec/h2645_parse.c mishandles rbsp_buffer.

osv:CVE-2019-15942
Complete source record
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