UpHeron
All vulnerabilities

Servers and applications

CVE-2011-2160

The VC-1 decoding functionality in FFmpeg before 0.5.4, as used in MPlayer and other products, does not properly restrict read operations, which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted VC-1 file, a related issue to CVE-2011-0723.

Severity
High 9.3
Published
20 May 2011
Last changed
16 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Exploit chance
1.7% in the next 30 daysHigher than 77% of CVEs. EPSS by FIRST, 13 Nov 2026
Weakness
Improper input validation (CWE-20)
Attack
Over the network · No login needed
Attacker can
Read data · Change data · Take it down
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
FFmpegServers and applications · cpe:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg
  • Version 0.5.2
  • Version 0.5.1
  • Version 0.5
  • Version 0.4.9-pre1
All 18 release lines
  • Every version up to 0.5.3
  • Version 0.3
  • Version 0.3.1
  • Version 0.3.2
  • Version 0.3.3
  • Version 0.3.4
  • Version 0.4.0
  • Version 0.4.2
  • Version 0.4.3
  • Version 0.4.4
  • Version 0.4.5
  • Version 0.4.6
  • Version 0.4.7
  • Version 0.4.8
  • Version 0.4.9-pre1
  • Version 0.5
  • Version 0.5.1
  • Version 0.5.2

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2160
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2160