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CVE-2011-4579

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2013-08-20 gstreamer-ffmpeg -- Multiple vulnerabilities in bundled libav
2012-01-14 ffmpeg -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2011-4579
Phase Assigned(20111129)

Description

The svq1_decode_frame function in the SVQ1 decoder (svq1dec.c) 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 (memory corruption) via a crafted SVQ1 stream, related to "dimensions changed."

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20111123 NGS00148 Patch Notification: FFmpeg Libavcodec memory corruption remote code execution
CONFIRM http://ffmpeg.org/
CONFIRM http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=6e24b9488e67849a28e64a8056e05f83cf439229
CONFIRM http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=6e24b9488e67849a28e64a8056e05f83cf439229
CONFIRM http://libav.org/
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2012:074
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2012:075
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2012:076
UBUNTU USN-1320-1
UBUNTU USN-1333-1