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CVE-2011-2161

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-2161 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ape_read_header function of FFmpeg's libavformat, affecting products like MPlayer and VLC media player. An attacker can crash applications by providing a specially crafted APE (Monkey's Audio) file with a header but no frames. Rated with a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability has a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community or media discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0123 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (16)

asteriskpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.7
View patch
asteriskpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.5.4
View patch
asteriskpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.6.2
View patch
bitbucketpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.6.2
bitbucketpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.5.4
bitbucketpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.7
elementpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.5.4
elementpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.7
elementpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.6.2
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gl_inetpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.5.4
gl_inetpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.6.2
gl_inetpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.7
jfrogpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.5.4
jfrogpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.6.2
jfrogpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.7

Vendor Advisories (15)

jfrogllm-jfrog-c6787a4c2456b6eb

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.7

jfrogllm-jfrog-fa3ca8049d43847e

Vulnerability fixed in FFmpeg 0.6.2

jfrogllm-jfrog-129683e78473e159

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.5.4

asteriskllm-asterisk-8bfc6f7f1e5d4fae

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.7

asteriskllm-asterisk-f922fc589bfdec68

Vulnerability fixed in FFmpeg 0.6.2

asteriskllm-asterisk-638e91a96e517b9e

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.5.4

gl_inetllm-gl_inet-15dce13b739f123f

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.7

gl_inetllm-gl_inet-b02c9efdbdb0ace4

Vulnerability fixed in FFmpeg 0.6.2

gl_inetllm-gl_inet-3efe299aabbf188e

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.5.4

bitbucketllm-bitbucket-8ec809a8b5f08ca6

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.7

bitbucketllm-bitbucket-b5457229ddcd76e2

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.6.2

bitbucketllm-bitbucket-01dd5238563110e5

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.5.4

elementllm-element-99599180ba8032c1

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.7

elementllm-element-fbc1437fa1198508

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.6.2

elementllm-element-e999936709af1d5d

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.5.4

References

ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu
Vendor Advisory
packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com / 1103-exploits/vlc105-dos.txt
Broken Link
github.com / FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/8312e3fc9041027a33c8bc667bb99740fdf41dd5
PatchThird Party Advisory