CVE-2022-3341: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A null pointer dereference issue was discovered in 'FFmpeg' in decode_main_header() function of libavformat/nutdec.c file. The flaw occurs because the function lacks check of the return value of avformat_new_stream() and triggers the null pointer dereference error, causing an application to crash.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
  • Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: before 5.0.3 (fixed in 5.0.3)

Published 2023-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.