CVE-2021-38114

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2021-38114 · Published 04/08/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-38114 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting ffmpeg (ffmpeg).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.99%, higher than 62.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ffmpeg ffmpeg	`= 4.4`	No fix yet

libavcodec/dnxhddec.c in FFmpeg 4.4 does not check the return value of the init_vlc function, a similar issue to CVE-2013-0868.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

= 4.4

No fix yet

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