Vulnerability CVE-2011-2161
Published: 2011-05-20   Modified: 2012-02-13

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

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Videolan -> Vlc media player 
Mplayerhq -> Mplayer 
Ffmpeg -> Ffmpeg 

 References:
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/1103-exploits/vlc105-dos.txt
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/8312e3fc9041027a33c8bc667bb99740fdf41dd5
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