CVE-2021-38291

HIGH

FFmpeg < 4.1.7 - Reachable Assertion in mathematics.c

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

FFmpeg version (git commit de8e6e67e7523e48bb27ac224a0b446df05e1640) suffers from a an assertion failure at src/libavutil/mathematics.c.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4990
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4998
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00012.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-14
Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/9312

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0033
EPSS Percentile 56.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-617
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
debian/debian_linux 11.0
ffmpeg/ffmpeg < 4.1.7
Published Aug 12, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026