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CVE-2020-22015

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-05-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in FFmpeg 4.2 in mov_write_video_tag due to the out of bounds in libavformat/movenc.c, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information, cause a Denial of Service, or execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
• FFmpeg: 4.2

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00018.html
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8190
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4990
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00018.html
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8190
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4990

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