4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2011-2161

Published: 20/05/2011 Updated: 17/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The ape_read_header function in ape.c in libavformat in FFmpeg prior to 0.5.4, as used in MPlayer, VideoLAN VLC media player, and other products, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an APE (aka Monkey's Audio) file that contains a header but no frames.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #628448 several vulnerabilities: CVE-2011-2162 CVE-2011-2161 CVE-2011-2160 Package: libav; Maintainer for libav is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Steffen Joeris <white@debianorg> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 03:27:01 UTC Severity: g ...
FFmpeg could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file ...