CVE-2005-4048 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Ffmpeg

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer7 documents6 sources

Severity

7.5HIGHNVD

EPSS

5.2%

top 10.01%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Ffmpeg Videolan VLC Media Player

Timeline

PublishedDec 7

Latest updateMay 1

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianffmpeg/ffmpeg< 0.cvs20050918-5.1+3

▶NVDffmpeg/ffmpeg5 versions+4

▶Debianvideolan/vlc_media_player< 0.8.4.debian-2+3

Patches

Patch: secunia.com ↗Patch: www.securityfocus.com ↗Patch: secunia.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

GHSA

GHSA-f7pg-m34f-mphj: Heap-based buffer overflow in the avcodec_default_get_buffer function (utils↗2022-05-01

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CVEList

CVE-2005-4048: Heap-based buffer overflow in the avcodec_default_get_buffer function (utils↗2005-12-07

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OSV

CVE-2005-4048: Heap-based buffer overflow in the avcodec_default_get_buffer function (utils↗2005-12-07

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📋Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu

ffmpeg/xine-lib vulnerability↗2005-12-16

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Ubuntu

ffmpeg vulnerability↗2005-12-15

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Debian

CVE-2005-4048: ffmpeg - Heap-based buffer overflow in the avcodec_default_get_buffer function (utils.c) ...↗2005

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