CVE-2011-1931Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Ffmpeg

Severity
6.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
2.3%
top 15.12%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJul 7
Latest updateMay 17

Description

sp5xdec.c in the Sunplus SP5X JPEG decoder in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.6.3 and libav through 0.6.2, as used in VideoLAN VLC media player 1.1.9 and earlier and other products, performs a write operation outside the bounds of an unspecified array, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed AMV file.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages3 packages

NVDlibav/libav0.6.2+19
NVDffmpeg/ffmpeg0.6.2+21

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-g323-87f6-pv6c: sp5xdec2022-05-17
CVEList
CVE-2011-1931: sp5xdec2011-07-07

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
FFmpeg vulnerabilities2011-09-19
Ubuntu
Libav vulnerabilities2011-09-19
Debian
CVE-2011-1931: ffmpeg - sp5xdec.c in the Sunplus SP5X JPEG decoder in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.6.3 ...2011
CVE-2011-1931 — Ffmpeg vulnerability | cvebase