CVE-2020-22037

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak in avcodec_alloc_context3 at options.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-2020-22037

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-22037.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2:4.4.1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed7:4.4.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed7:4.3.3-0+deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed7:4.4.1-1
debian debiansidfixed7:4.4.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed7:4.4.1-1

References

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