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CVE-2011-3973

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-3973 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in FFmpeg versions before 0.7.4 and 0.8.x before 0.8.3. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash applications by providing a specially crafted, invalid Chinese AVS video bitstream. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, though its impact is limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0250 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (5)

asteriskpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.5.5
View patch
bitbucketpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.5.5
elementpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.5.5
gl_inetpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.5.5
jfrogpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 0.5.5

Vendor Advisories (5)

jfrogllm-jfrog-024346c82b3ef0c3

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.5.5

asteriskllm-asterisk-c1e92e0d3e250717

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.5.5

gl_inetllm-gl_inet-d98bf86ea70d99f8

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.5.5

bitbucketllm-bitbucket-dd06c70e8ef128d7

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.5.5

elementllm-element-5e3cd7cea1a1a177

Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in FFmpeg 0.5.5

References

git.videolan.org
ffmpeg.org / releases/ffmpeg-0.7.5.changelog
ffmpeg.org / releases/ffmpeg-0.8.4.changelog
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories