CVE-2005-4048
N/A
Published: December 7, 2005 at 11:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:18 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFFMPEG
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 5%
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.
Remediation
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References (30)
x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/26558x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-ffmpeg/ChangeLog?rev=1.239&view=markupThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/17892Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/18066Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/18087Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/18107Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/18400Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/18739Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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