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CVE-2020-24995

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Buffer overflow vulnerability in sniff_channel_order function in aacdec_template.c in ffmpeg 3.1.2, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code (local).

Affected products

• FFmpeg: 3.1.2

References

• http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d6f293353c94c7ce200f6e0975ae3de49787f91f
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8845
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8859
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8860
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d6f293353c94c7ce200f6e0975ae3de49787f91f
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8845
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8859
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8860

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