National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3940
Original release date:08/20/2012
Last revised:10/30/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
nsvdec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11, and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and write) via a crafted NSV file that triggers "use of uninitialized streams."
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: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=c898431ca5ef2a997fe9388b650f658fb60783e5
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=8fd8a48263ff1437f9d02d7e78dc63efb9b5ed3a
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c011706bc752d34bc6ada31d7df2ca0c9af7c6b
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1479-1
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2471
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 49089
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://libav.org/
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://ffmpeg.org/
Type: Advisory