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HistoryDec 15, 2005 - 12:00 a.m.

ffmpeg vulnerability

2005-12-1500:00:00
ubuntu.com
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CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

AI Score

6.9

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.015

Percentile

87.1%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 5.04

Details

Simon Kilvington discovered a buffer overflow in the
avcodec_default_get_buffer() function of the ffmpeg library. By
tricking an user into opening a malicious movie which contains
specially crafted PNG images, this could be exploited to execute
arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu5.04noarchkino< *UNKNOWN
Ubuntu5.04noarchlibavcodec-dev< *UNKNOWN

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

AI Score

6.9

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.015

Percentile

87.1%