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CVE-2020-36138

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-08-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in decode_frame in libavcodec/tiff.c in FFmpeg version 4.3, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS).

Affected products

• FFmpeg: 4.3

References

• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/292e41ce650a7b5ca5de4ae87fff0d6a90d9fc97
• https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2020-November/272001.html
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8960
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/292e41ce650a7b5ca5de4ae87fff0d6a90d9fc97
• https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2020-November/272001.html
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8960

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