CVE-2005-4048

CVE-2005-4048 is corroborated across OpenVAS/Gentoo/Ubuntu advisories tied to FFmpeg libavcodec up to 0.4.9-pre1 and earlier. A heap-based buffer overflow in avcodec_default_get_buffer (utils.c) can be triggered by crafted small PNG images with palettes, potentially enabling remote command execut...

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"...