CVE-2011-3940

medium

Description

nsvdec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11, and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and write) via a crafted NSV file that triggers "use of uninitialized streams."

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2471

http://secunia.com/advisories/49089

http://libav.org/

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=c898431ca5ef2a997fe9388b650f658fb60783e5

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=8fd8a48263ff1437f9d02d7e78dc63efb9b5ed3a

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5c011706bc752d34bc6ada31d7df2ca0c9af7c6b

http://ffmpeg.org/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-08-20

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium