CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-4048

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-12-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-12-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the avcodec_default_get_buffer function (utils.c) in FFmpeg libavcodec 0.4.9-pre1 and earlier, as used in products such as (1) mplayer, (2) xine-lib, (3) Xmovie, and (4) GStreamer, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via small PNG images with palettes.

Affected configurations

• ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.4.6 • ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.4.7 • ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.4.8 • ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.4.9 • ffmpeg ffmpeg cvs

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References