Microsoft DirectShow AVI Decoder Buffer Overflow (MS05-050; CVE-2005-2128)

Microsoft DirectX is a set of low-level application programming interfaces APIs for creating high-performance multimedia applications. Microsoft DirectShow is an architecture for streaming media on the Microsoft Windows platform and provides for the capture and playback of multimedia streams. It...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : ffmpeg, xine-lib vulnerabilities (USN-358-1)

XFOCUS Security Team discovered that the AVI decoder used in xine-lib did not correctly validate certain headers. By tricking a user into playing an AVI with malicious headers, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the target user's privileges. CVE-2006-4799 Multiple integer overflows wer...

USN-358-1: ffmpeg, xine-lib vulnerabilities

XFOCUS Security Team discovered that the AVI decoder used in xine-lib did not correctly validate certain headers. By tricking a user into playing an AVI with malicious headers, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the target user's privileges. CVE-2006-4799 Multiple integer overflows wer...