CVE-2020-20446 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2020-20446?

CVE-2020-20446 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 25 May 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

FFmpeg 4.2 is affected by a Divide By Zero issue via libavcodec/aacpsy.c, which allows a remote malicious user to cause a Denial of Service.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-20446?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Ffmpeg Ffmpeg.

How do I fix CVE-2020-20446?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2020-20446 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-20446 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CLEANSTART-2024-BG05156, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-20446, GHSA-g8q8-j3hg-2pxm, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-20446.