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SUSE SLED15: ffmpeg / libavcodec-devel / libavcodec57 / libavdevice57 / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:3293-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 153917

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3293-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2020-22042: Fixed a denial of service vulnerability led by a memory leak in the link_filter_inouts function in libavfilter/graphparser.c. (bsc#1186761)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186761

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-22042

http://www.nessus.org/u?b7ad3f60

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 153917

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3293-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-22042

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavresample3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavutil-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavfilter6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavresample3-64bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpostproc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavresample3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavresample-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libswresample-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ffmpeg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpostproc54, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavformat-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavcodec57, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavutil55, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libswscale4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavformat57, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavcodec-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libswresample2, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libswscale-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavdevice57

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-22042

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3293-1