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CVE-2011-3952

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-2011-3952
Phase Assigned(20111001)

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

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://ffmpeg.org/
CONFIRM http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=386741f887714d3e46c9e8fe577e326a7964037b
CONFIRM http://libav.org/
DEBIAN DSA-2494
UBUNTU USN-1479-1