mplayer -- vulnerability in STR files processor

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "strreadpacket" function in libavformat/psxstr.c. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted STR file...

FFmpeg libavformat - psxstr.c STR Data Heap Buffer Overflow

FFmpeg libavformat - psxstr.c STR Data Heap Buffer Overflow source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30154/info The 'libavformat' library from FFmpeg is prone to a remote heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because of insufficient boundary checks when parsing STR data. Remote attackers can...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 992-1 (ffmpeg)

The remote host is missing an update to ffmpeg announced via advisory DSA 992-1. Simon Kilvington discovered that specially crafted PNG images can trigger a heap overflow in libavcodec, the multimedia library of ffmpeg, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The old stable distributio...