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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-3973: FFmpeg: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-3973: FFmpeg: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/02/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-video-ffmpeg

References

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