CVE-2005-4048

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/230-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/230-1/

http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/utils.c?rev=1.162&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=FFMpeg

http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/utils.c.diff?r1=1.161&r2=1.162&cvsroot=FFMpeg

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2770

http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-992

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15743

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:232

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:231

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:230

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:229

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:228

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-03.xml

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-01.xml

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-06.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1005

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1004

http://secunia.com/advisories/19279

http://secunia.com/advisories/19272

http://secunia.com/advisories/19192

http://secunia.com/advisories/19114

http://secunia.com/advisories/18746

http://secunia.com/advisories/18739

http://secunia.com/advisories/18400

http://secunia.com/advisories/18107

http://secunia.com/advisories/18087

http://secunia.com/advisories/18066

http://secunia.com/advisories/17892

http://cvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-ffmpeg/ChangeLog?rev=1.239&view=markup

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/26558

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3