CVE-2025-0518 (GCVE-0-2025-0518)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-16 16:45 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:56
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Title
Unchecked sscanf return value which leads to memory data leak
Summary
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Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
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FFmpeg FFmpeg Affected: 7.1
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