SB2025060829 - Buffer overflow in FFmpeg
Published: June 8, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2025060829
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-4364)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Buffer overflow in the Sierra VMD decoder in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.5.x before 0.5.7, 0.6.x before 0.6.4, 0.7.x before 0.7.9 and 0.8.x before 0.8.8; and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.6, 0.6.x before 0.6.4, and 0.7.x before 0.7.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VMD file, related to corrupted streams.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://ffmpeg.org/
- http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=c0cbe36b18ab3eb13a53fe684ec1f63a00df2c86
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=c0cbe36b18ab3eb13a53fe684ec1f63a00df2c86
- http://libav.org/
- http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.5.6.changelog
- http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.6.4.changelog
- http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.7.3.changelog
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1320-1
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1333-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:074
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:075
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:076