CVE-2011-3929

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The avpriv_dv_produce_packet function in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11 and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted DV file.

Affected products

FFmpeg: 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.6, 0.7.7, 0.7.8, 0.7.9 (+6)
libav: 0.5, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.5.4, 0.5.5 (+15)

References

http://ffmpeg.org/
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=635bcfccd439480003b74a665b5aa7c872c1ad6b
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5a396bb3a66a61a68b80f2369d0249729bf85e04
http://libav.org/
http://secunia.com/advisories/49089
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2471
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1
http://ffmpeg.org/
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=635bcfccd439480003b74a665b5aa7c872c1ad6b
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5a396bb3a66a61a68b80f2369d0249729bf85e04
http://libav.org/
http://secunia.com/advisories/49089

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