Resource management error in FFmpeg - cve-2011-3973
Published: October 2, 2011 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32840
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: cve-2011-3973
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
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.
Affected software
FFmpeg
ffmpeg (Alpine package)
ffmpeg (Alpine package)
How to mitigate cve-2011-3973
Install update from vendor's website.
FFmpeg - update to 0.7.4
ffmpeg (Alpine package) - update to 0.6.1-r3
ffmpeg (Alpine package) - update to 0.6.1-r3
External References
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=bd968d260aef322fb32e254a3de0d2036c57bd56
- http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.7.5.changelog
- http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.8.4.changelog
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:074
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:075
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:076