CVE-2011-0722: ffmpeg

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-0722 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability in ffmpeg. EPSS estimates a 4.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 20-05-2011
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

FFmpeg before 0.5.4, as used in MPlayer and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia file.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.