A vulnerability was found in FFmpeg (Multimedia Processing Software). It has been declared as very critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The VC-1 decoding functionality in FFmpeg before 0.5.4, as used in MPlayer and other products, does not properly restrict read operations, which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted VC-1 file, a related issue to CVE-2011-0723.

The weakness was shared 05/20/2011 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2011-2160 since 05/20/2011. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/23/2015).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entry 57500 is related to this item.

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• Multimedia Processing Software

Name

• FFmpeg

Version

• 0.3
• 0.3.1
• 0.3.2
• 0.3.3
• 0.3.4
• 0.4.0
• 0.4.2
• 0.4.3
• 0.4.4
• 0.4.5
• 0.4.6
• 0.4.7
• 0.4.8
• 0.4.9
• 0.5
• 0.5.1
• 0.5.2
• 0.5.3

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• open-source

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