CVE-2011-3951

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% 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 dpcm_decode_frame function in dpcm.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.10 and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.6, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted stereo stream in a media file.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 0.9.1; 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.7, 0.7.8, 0.7.9, 0.7.11 (+8)
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=ce7aee9b733134649a6ce2fa743e51733f33e67e
http://libav.org/
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2494
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1
http://ffmpeg.org/
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ce7aee9b733134649a6ce2fa743e51733f33e67e
http://libav.org/
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2494
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1

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