Reachable Assertion in FFmpeg - CVE-2021-38291

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Reachable Assertion in FFmpeg - CVE-2021-38291

Published: December 27, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU84802
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38291
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion in src/libavutil/mathematics.c. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted file and crash the application.


Affected software

FFmpeg
Gentoo Linux
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator

How to mitigate CVE-2021-38291

Install updates from vendor's website.

FFmpeg - update to 4.1.7
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator - update to 5.0.3

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