CVE-2020-13904

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

FFmpeg 2.8 and 4.2.3 has a use-after-free via a crafted EXTINF duration in an m3u8 file because parse_playlist in libavformat/hls.c frees a pointer, and later that pointer is accessed in av_probe_input_format3 in libavformat/format.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-13904

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13904.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202007-4

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2:4.3.1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed7:4.3.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed7:4.3.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed7:4.3.1-1
debian debiansidfixed7:4.3.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed7:4.3.1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.