CVE-2011-3504

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The Matroska format decoder in FFmpeg before 0.8.3 does not properly allocate memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 0.8.0; 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.4.0 (+17)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/45532
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/msvr/msvr11-011
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1320-1
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1333-1
http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.7.5.changelog
http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.8.4.changelog
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:074
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:075
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:076
http://www.osvdb.org/75621
http://secunia.com/advisories/45532
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/msvr/msvr11-011

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