CVE-2005-4048 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the avcodec_default_get_buffer 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.

Reference

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/26558 http://cvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-ffmpeg/ChangeLog?rev=1.239&view=markup http://secunia.com/advisories/17892 http://secunia.com/advisories/18066 http://secunia.com/advisories/18087 http://secunia.com/advisories/18107 http://secunia.com/advisories/18400 http://secunia.com/advisories/18739 http://secunia.com/advisories/18746 http://secunia.com/advisories/19114 http://secunia.com/advisories/19192 http://secunia.com/advisories/19272 http://secunia.com/advisories/19279 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1004 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1005 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-06.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-01.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-03.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:228 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:229 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:230 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:231 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:232 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15743 http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-992 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2770 http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/utils.c.diff?r1=1.161&r2=1.162&cvsroot=FFMpeg http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/utils.c?rev=1.162&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=FFMpeg https://usn.ubuntu.com/230-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/230-2/