CVE-2022-3109 (GCVE-0-2022-3109)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-16 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-16 14:45
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a FFmpeg Affected: FFmpeg 5.1
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