Code Injection in FFmpeg - cve-2011-3504
Published: September 29, 2011 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32843
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: cve-2011-3504
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
The Matroska format decoder in FFmpeg before 0.8.3 does not properly allocate memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file.
Affected software
FFmpeg
ffmpeg (Alpine package)
ffmpeg (Alpine package)
How to mitigate cve-2011-3504
Install update from vendor's website.
FFmpeg - update to 0.8.3
ffmpeg (Alpine package) - update to 0.6.1-r2
ffmpeg (Alpine package) - update to 0.6.1-r2
External References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45532
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/msvr/msvr11-011
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1320-1
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1333-1
- 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
- http://www.osvdb.org/75621