CVE-2011-4364

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    CVE-2011-4364

    Published: 20 Aug 2012Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Buffer overflow in the Sierra VMD decoder in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.5.x before 0.5.7, 0.6.x before 0.6.4, 0.7.x before 0.7.9 and 0.8.x before 0.8.8; and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.6, 0.6.x before 0.6.4, and 0.7.x before 0.7.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VMD file, related to corrupted streams.

    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://ffmpeg.org/, http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c0cbe36b18ab3eb13a53fe684ec1f63a00df2c86, http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c0cbe36b18ab3eb13a53fe684ec1f63a00df2c86, http://libav.org/, http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.5.6.changelog, http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.6.4.changelog, http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.7.3.changelog, http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1320-1, http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1333-1

    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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