CVE-2011-3973

Published Oct 2, 2011

Last updated a year ago

Overview

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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-399

Configurations