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CVE-2011-3940

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2013-08-20 gstreamer-ffmpeg -- Multiple vulnerabilities in bundled libav

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2011-3940
Phase Assigned(20111001)

Description

nsvdec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11, and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and write) via a crafted NSV file that triggers "use of uninitialized streams."

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://ffmpeg.org/
CONFIRM http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c011706bc752d34bc6ada31d7df2ca0c9af7c6b
CONFIRM http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=8fd8a48263ff1437f9d02d7e78dc63efb9b5ed3a
CONFIRM http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=c898431ca5ef2a997fe9388b650f658fb60783e5
CONFIRM http://libav.org/
DEBIAN DSA-2471
UBUNTU USN-1479-1
SECUNIA 49089