CVE-2019-17539
highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.020 · 81 %ileEURUUSgrimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
2.03% (81st) EPSS
CVSS 7.5 · high
Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
In FFmpeg before 4.2, avcodec_open2 in libavcodec/utils.c allows a NULL pointer dereference and possibly unspecified other impact when there is no valid close function pointer.
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cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
9.8
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9
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weaknesses
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affected products (18)
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also known as (4)
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sources
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references (27)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15733cnnvd
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/8df6884832ec413cf032dfaa45c23b1c7876670ccnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00026.htmlcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17539cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156968/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-202003-65.htmlcnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158529/Ubuntu-Security-Notice-USN-4431-1.htmlcnnvd
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-65cnnvd
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4431-1/cnnvd
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