FKIE_CVE-2011-3973
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2011-10-02 20:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:34
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | * | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.3 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.3.1 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.3.2 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.3.3 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.3.4 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.4.0 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.4.2 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.4.3 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.4.4 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.4.5 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.4.6 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.4.7 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.4.8 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.4.9 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.5 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.5.1 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.5.2 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.5.3 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.5.4 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.6 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.6.1 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.6.2 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.7.1 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.7.2 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.8.0 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.8.1 | |
| ffmpeg | ffmpeg | 0.8.2 |
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