CVE-2005-4048

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2005-12-07 CVE Reserved
2005-12-07 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CAPEC

References (30)

URL	Tag	Source
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/26558	X_refsource_misc
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-ffmpeg/ChangeLog?rev=1.239&view=markup	X_refsource_confirm
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/utils.c.diff?r1=1.161&r2=1.162&cvsroot=FFMpeg	X_refsource_confirm
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/utils.c?rev=1.162&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=FFMpeg	X_refsource_confirm

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://secunia.com/advisories/17892	2018-10-30
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15743	2018-10-30

URL	Date	SRC
http://secunia.com/advisories/18066	2018-10-30
http://secunia.com/advisories/18087	2018-10-30
http://secunia.com/advisories/18107	2018-10-30
http://secunia.com/advisories/18400	2018-10-30
http://secunia.com/advisories/18739	2018-10-30
http://secunia.com/advisories/18746	2018-10-30
http://secunia.com/advisories/19114	2018-10-30
http://secunia.com/advisories/19192	2018-10-30
http://secunia.com/advisories/19272	2018-10-30
http://secunia.com/advisories/19279	2018-10-30
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1004	2018-10-30
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1005	2018-10-30
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-06.xml	2018-10-30
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-01.xml	2018-10-30
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-03.xml	2018-10-30
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:228	2018-10-30
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:229	2018-10-30
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:230	2018-10-30
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:231	2018-10-30
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:232	2018-10-30
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-992	2018-10-30
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2770	2018-10-30
https://usn.ubuntu.com/230-1	2018-10-30
https://usn.ubuntu.com/230-2	2018-10-30

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Ffmpeg Search vendor "Ffmpeg"		Ffmpeg Search vendor "Ffmpeg" for product "Ffmpeg"				0.4.6 Search vendor "Ffmpeg" for product "Ffmpeg" and version "0.4.6"		-		Affected
Ffmpeg Search vendor "Ffmpeg"		Ffmpeg Search vendor "Ffmpeg" for product "Ffmpeg"				0.4.7 Search vendor "Ffmpeg" for product "Ffmpeg" and version "0.4.7"		-		Affected
Ffmpeg Search vendor "Ffmpeg"		Ffmpeg Search vendor "Ffmpeg" for product "Ffmpeg"				0.4.8 Search vendor "Ffmpeg" for product "Ffmpeg" and version "0.4.8"		-		Affected
Ffmpeg Search vendor "Ffmpeg"		Ffmpeg Search vendor "Ffmpeg" for product "Ffmpeg"				0.4.9 Search vendor "Ffmpeg" for product "Ffmpeg" and version "0.4.9"		-		Affected
Ffmpeg Search vendor "Ffmpeg"		Ffmpeg Search vendor "Ffmpeg" for product "Ffmpeg"				cvs Search vendor "Ffmpeg" for product "Ffmpeg" and version "cvs"		-		Affected