CVE-2005-4048: Buffer Overflow
First published: Wed Dec 07 2005(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| FFmpeg FFmpeg | =0.4.6 | |
| FFmpeg FFmpeg | =0.4.7 | |
| FFmpeg FFmpeg | =0.4.8 | |
| FFmpeg FFmpeg | =0.4.9 | |
| FFmpeg FFmpeg | =cvs |
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Reference Links
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/26558
- http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/utils.c.diff?r1=1.161&r2=1.162&cvsroot=FFMpeg
- http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/utils.c?rev=1.162&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=FFMpeg
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15743
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17892
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18066
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18107
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18087
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-01.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18739
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18746
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-03.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19114
- http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-992
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19192
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1004
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1005
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19272
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19279
- http://cvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-ffmpeg/ChangeLog?rev=1.239&view=markup
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-06.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18400
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:228
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:229
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:230
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:231
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:232
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2770
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/230-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/230-1/
- agent/references
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/remedy
- agent/type
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- collector/nvd-historical
- agent/author
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/event
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/ffmpeg
- canonical/ffmpeg ffmpeg
- version/ffmpeg ffmpeg/0.4.6
- version/ffmpeg ffmpeg/0.4.7
- version/ffmpeg ffmpeg/0.4.8
- version/ffmpeg ffmpeg/0.4.9
- version/ffmpeg ffmpeg/cvs