CVE-2011-2160

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-05-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The VC-1 decoding functionality in FFmpeg before 0.5.4, as used in MPlayer and other products, does not properly restrict read operations, which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted VC-1 file, a related issue to CVE-2011-0723.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 0.5.3; 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.4.0 (+11)
Mplayerhq Mplayer: all versions

References

http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47956
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47956

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