CVE-2005-4048

EPSS 5.2%

ffmpeg - buffer overflow

Published: 12/7/2005Modified: 4/28/2026

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 packages (5)

References (1)