CVE-2019-17539

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17539
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-17539.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-17539
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-10-14T02:15:10.513Z
Modified
2026-04-16T00:06:06.318614207Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In FFmpeg before 4.2, avcodec_open2 in libavcodec/utils.c allows a NULL pointer dereference and possibly unspecified other impact when there is no valid close function pointer.

Database specific 
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            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*",
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                }
            ]
        },
        {
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            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
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                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
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                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
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                }
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        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
289a79d545e83a97f5cdd00b28ce70638dae53e8
Introduced
ace829cb45cff530b8a0aed6adf18f329d7a98f6
Fixed
26e1d0d015bb11ab0383729c52cfca4fd9cf4e79
Introduced
3c1ecb057d7621e57968624aa15ad3e9efc819f7
Fixed
4521700f295f35da4768f88b570e0836a858ce7b
Fixed
8df6884832ec413cf032dfaa45c23b1c7876670c
Database specific 
{
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        "CPE_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.4.7"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "4.0.5"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.1"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "4.1.5"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
N
n0.*
n0.11-dev
n0.12-dev
n0.8
n1.*
n1.1-dev
n1.2-dev
n1.3-dev
n2.*
n2.0
n2.1-dev
n2.2-dev
n2.3-dev
n2.4-dev
n2.5-dev
n2.6-dev
n2.7-dev
n2.8-dev
n2.9-dev
n3.*
n3.1-dev
n3.2-dev
n3.3-dev
n3.4
n3.4-dev
n3.4.1
n3.4.2
n3.4.3
n3.4.4
n3.4.5
n3.4.6
n4.*
n4.0
n4.0.1
n4.0.2
n4.0.3
n4.0.4
n4.1
n4.1-dev
n4.1.1
n4.1.2
n4.1.3
n4.1.4
n4.2-dev

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-17539.json"
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-04-11T20:52:53Z"
vanir_signatures 
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