Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-3109

High

Published: 16 December 2022

Published
16 December 2022
Modified
07 August 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0020 41.9th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-3109 is a high-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 41.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in the FFmpeg package, where vp3_decode_frame in libavcodec/vp3.c lacks check of the return value of av_malloc() and will cause a null pointer dereference, impacting availability.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

debian
debian linux
10.0, 11.0
fedoraproject
fedora
36
ffmpeg
ffmpeg
≤ 5.0.3

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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