CVE-2024-36615

Summary

CVE-2024-36615 is a newly discovered vulnerability affecting the FFmpeg n7.0 VP9 decoder. This issue involves a race condition, where data is being written in the decoder thread but read in the output thread while encoding parameters are being exported. The consequence of this race condition is a potential data race, posing a security risk to users. The vulnerability could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or cause the application to crash. Users are strongly advised to update their FFmpeg installations as soon as possible to mitigate this risk.

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