Is CVE-2011-0480 being actively exploited?

CVE-2011-0480 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2011-0480?

CVE-2011-0480 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 9.3 (HIGH).

CVE-2011-0480

HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 2.5%EU EUVD

Multiple buffer overflows in vorbis_dec.c in the Vorbis decoder in FFmpeg, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.237 and Chrome OS before 8.0.552.344, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted WebM file, related to buffers for (1) the channel floor and (2) the channel residue.

Key facts

CVSS score: 9.3 (v2.0)
Severity: HIGH
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness (CWE): CWE-120
EPSS score: 2.5% (85th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2011-0500)
Published: January 14, 2011
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-0500 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
debian / debian linux
google / chrome
google / chrome os

References

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/122703(Broken Link)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610550(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=68115(Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
http://codereview.chromium.org/5964011(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
http://codereview.chromium.org/6069005(Vendor Advisory)
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/(Third Party Advisory)
http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=13184036a6b1b1d4b61c91118c0896e9ad4634c3
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/01/chrome-stable-release.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://osvdb.org/70463(Broken Link)
http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue2548(Broken Link)
http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue2550(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/42951(Third Party Advisory)
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=70200(Broken Link)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2306(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:061(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45788(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2054(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1104-1/(Third Party Advisory)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64671(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14380(Third Party Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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