National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3945
Original release date:08/20/2012
Last revised:08/21/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The decode_frame function in the KVG1 decoder (kgv1dec.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 (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted media 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: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=807a045ab7f51993a2c1b3116016cbbd4f3d20d6
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=a02e8df973f5478ec82f4c507f5b5b191a5ecb6b
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2012:076
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://libav.org/
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://ffmpeg.org/
