CVE-2005-4048

Heap-based buffer overflow in the avcodecdefaultgetbuffer 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...

ffmpeg -- libavcodec buffer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports: Simon Kilvington has reported a vulnerability in FFmpeg libavcodec, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service and potentially to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the "avcodecdefaultgetbuffer"...