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CVE-2022-3109

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-12-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in the FFmpeg package, where vp3_decode_frame in libavcodec/vp3.c lacks check of the return value of av_malloc() and will cause a null pointer dereference, impacting availability.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 36
• FFmpeg: before 5.0.3 — fixed in 5.0.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: FFmpeg 5.0.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153551
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/656cb0450aeb73b25d7d26980af342b37ac4c568
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00016.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KOMB6WRUC55VWV25IKJTV22KARBUGWGQ/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5394
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153551
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/656cb0450aeb73b25d7d26980af342b37ac4c568
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00016.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KOMB6WRUC55VWV25IKJTV22KARBUGWGQ/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5394

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