CVE-2011-3973

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    CVE-2011-3973

    Published: 2 Oct 2011Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:074, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:075, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:076, http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bd968d260aef322fb32e254a3de0d2036c57bd56, http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.7.5.changelog, http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.8.4.changelog

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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