CVE-2011-3952

high

Description

The decode_init function in kmvc.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.10 and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.6, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large palette size in a KMVC encoded file.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2494

http://libav.org/

http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=386741f887714d3e46c9e8fe577e326a7964037b

http://ffmpeg.org/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-08-20

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High