National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3362
Original release date:10/02/2011
Last revised:05/18/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer signedness error in the decode_residual_block function in cavsdec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.7.3 and 0.8.x before 0.8.2, and libav through 0.7.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Chinese AVS video (aka CAVS) file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110914 Re: CVE request: ffmpeg/libav insufficuent boundary check in CAVS decoding
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110913 CVE request: ffmpeg/libav insufficuent boundary check in CAVS decoding
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=c5cbda50793e311aa73489d12184ffd6761c9fbf
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=91d5da9321c52e8197fb14046ebb335f3e6ff4a0
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-002.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.8.4.changelog
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.7.5.changelog
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 45532
Type: Advisory