CVE-2011-2161 Information

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.

Reference

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