CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2161
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-05-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• ffmpeg ffmpeg (< 0.5.4)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/1103-exploits/vlc105-dos.txt Broken Link
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/8312e3fc9041027a33c8bc667bb99740fdf41dd5 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/1103-exploits/vlc105-dos.txt Broken Link
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/8312e3fc9041027a33c8bc667bb99740fdf41dd5 Patch, Third Party Advisory