CVE-2020-20896

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-20896
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-20896.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-20896
Downstream
Related
Published
2021-09-20T16:15:09.167Z
Modified
2026-08-16T08:40:19.784519Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in function latmwritepacket in libavformat/latmenc.c in Ffmpeg 4.2.1, allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service or other unspecified impacts due to a Null pointer dereference.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Database specific
Show details
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

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-dev
n3.5-dev
n4.*
n4.1-dev
n4.2-dev
n4.3-dev

Database specific

vanir_signatures
[
    {
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "289650723740617240047631253826052269792",
                "50140283604854964284110220465205697211",
                "129133804975535101787841081332085239044",
                "258251669415981779699188875724056740232"
            ]
        },
        "id": "CVE-2020-20896-11f4b120",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "libavformat/latmenc.c"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git@dd01947397b98e94c3f2a79d5820aaf4594f4d3b",
        "signature_type": "Line"
    },
    {
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "233672656897557032709782832246145849603",
            "length": 1772.0
        },
        "id": "CVE-2020-20896-e21d234a",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "function": "latm_write_packet",
            "file": "libavformat/latmenc.c"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git@dd01947397b98e94c3f2a79d5820aaf4594f4d3b",
        "signature_type": "Function"
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-20896.json"
vanir_signatures_modified
"2026-08-16T08:40:19Z"

Git / github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "4.2.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.2.1"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.2.1
n4.*
n4.2.1

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-20896.json"