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Hole in widely-used FFmpeg codec could crash media servers or enable RCE
A newly discovered critical vulnerability in the FFmpeg media processing framework bundled in a huge number of open source and commercial applications points, again, to the need for CSOs to have strategies to deal with software supply…
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A widely-used FFmpeg codec contains a critical vulnerability that could cause media servers to crash or enable remote code execution. The issue was discovered by researchers who found that the vulnerability affects a large number of open-source and commercial applications that utilize the FFmpeg framework.
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