VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-3362

medium
Published 2011-10-02 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Integer signedness error in the decode_residual_block function in cavsdec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.7.3 and 0.8.x before 0.8.2, and libav through 0.7.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Chinese AVS video (aka CAVS) file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 7:2.4.1-1
sid Fixed 7:2.4.1-1
forky Fixed 7:2.4.1-1
bullseye Fixed 7:2.4.1-1
bookworm Fixed 7:2.4.1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ffmpegffmpeg{"endIncluding":"0.7.2"}
ffmpegffmpeg0.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.3.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.3.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.3.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.3.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.0
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.7
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.8
ffmpegffmpeg0.4.9
ffmpegffmpeg0.5
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.3
ffmpegffmpeg0.5.4
ffmpegffmpeg0.6
ffmpegffmpeg0.6.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.6.2
ffmpegffmpeg0.7.1
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.0
ffmpegffmpeg0.8.1
libavlibav{"endIncluding":"0.7.1"}
libavlibav0.3
libavlibav0.3.1
libavlibav0.3.2
libavlibav0.3.3
libavlibav0.3.4
libavlibav0.4.0
libavlibav0.4.1
libavlibav0.4.2
libavlibav0.4.3
libavlibav0.4.4
libavlibav0.4.5
libavlibav0.4.6
libavlibav0.4.7
libavlibav0.4.8
libavlibav0.4.9
libavlibav0.5
libavlibav0.5.4
libavlibav0.6
libavlibav0.6.1
libavlibav0.6.2
libavlibav0.7

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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