CVE-2011-3973

medium

Description

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.

References

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:076

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:075

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:074

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

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

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bd968d260aef322fb32e254a3de0d2036c57bd56

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-10-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium