Resource Management Errors Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,0.7.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.05% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369165
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Oct 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Oct 2011

CVE-2011-3973  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 0.7.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors 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.

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