CVE-2024-31578 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2024-31578?

CVE-2024-31578 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 17 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

FFmpeg version n6.1.1 was discovered to contain a heap use-after-free via the av_hwframe_ctx_init function.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-31578?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Ffmpeg Ffmpeg.

How do I fix CVE-2024-31578?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2024-31578 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-31578 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2024-31578, GHSA-56vv-v57v-fgmr, JLSEC-2025-125, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-31578, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-31578, openSUSE-SU-2024:13894-1.