CVE-2011-3936

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% 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-20

Description

The dv_extract_audio 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 (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted DV file.

Affected products

FFmpeg: 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.7.6, 0.7.7 (+12)
libav: 0.5, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.5.4, 0.5.5 (+17)

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=2d1c0dea5f6b91bec7f5fa53ec050913d851e366
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=2d1c0dea5f6b91bec7f5fa53ec050913d851e366
http://libav.org/
http://secunia.com/advisories/49089

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