CVE-2005-4048 in FFmpeg

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 12/07/2005
• Disclosure: 12/07/2005
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-27331 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.3
• EPSS: 0.05247
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4048
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4048
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2005-4048/