CVE-2011-3973

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

cavsdec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.7.4 and 0.8.x before 0.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect write operation and application crash) via an invalid bitstream in a Chinese AVS video (aka CAVS) file, related to the decode_residual_block, check_for_slice, and cavs_decode_frame functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3362.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

FFmpeg

First reported 13 years ago

2011-10-02 20:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-08-22 03:30:00

Affected Software

FFmpeg 0.3

0.3

FFmpeg 0.3.1

0.3.1

FFmpeg 0.3.2

0.3.2

FFmpeg 0.3.3

0.3.3

FFmpeg 0.3.4

0.3.4

FFmpeg 0.4.0

0.4.0

FFmpeg 0.4.2

0.4.2

FFmpeg 0.4.3

0.4.3

FFmpeg 0.4.4

0.4.4

FFmpeg 0.4.5

0.4.5

FFmpeg 0.4.6

0.4.6

FFmpeg 0.4.7

0.4.7

FFmpeg 0.4.8

0.4.8

FFmpeg 0.4.9 pre1

0.4.9

FFmpeg 0.5

0.5

FFmpeg 0.5.1

0.5.1

FFmpeg 0.5.2

0.5.2

FFmpeg 0.5.3

0.5.3

FFmpeg 0.5.4

0.5.4

FFmpeg 0.6

0.6

FFmpeg 0.6.1

0.6.1

FFmpeg 0.6.2

0.6.2

FFmpeg 0.7.1

0.7.1

FFmpeg 0.7.2

0.7.2

FFmpeg 0.8.0

0.8.0

FFmpeg 0.8.1

0.8.1

FFmpeg 0.8.2

0.8.2

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=bd968d260aef322fb32e254a3de0d2036c57bd56

Patch

http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.7.5.changelog

http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.8.4.changelog

MDVSA-2012:074

MDVSA-2012:075

MDVSA-2012:076

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