CVE-2011-3973
N/A
Published: October 2, 2011 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFFMPEG
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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.
Remediation
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References (6)
x_refsource_CONFIRMx_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.7.5.changelogx_refsource_CONFIRMx_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.8.4.changelogVendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:074Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:075Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:076Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399
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