Vulnerability in Ffmpeg

CVE-2011-3973

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.

EPSS: 0.025 (83.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Ffmpeg — versions 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References