CVE-2011-0723: Ffmpeg

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

FFmpeg 0.5.x, as used in MPlayer and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed VC-1 file.

Affected products

  • Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: version 0.5.1 only; version 0.5.2 only; version 0.5.3 only; version 0.5.4 only
  • Mplayer Mplayer: any version

Published 2011-05-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.