| Name | CVE-2005-4048 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1004-1, DSA-1005-1, DSA-992-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 342207, 342208, 343503 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ffmpeg (PTS) | bullseye | 7:4.3.7-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 7:4.3.8-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 7:7.1-3 | fixed |
| mplayer (PTS) | bullseye | 2:1.4+ds1-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:1.5+svn38408-1 | fixed |
| sid | 2:1.5+svn38542-1 | fixed |
| vlc (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.0.21-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 3.0.21-0+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.0.21-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
- mplayer <not-affected> (Fixed before initial upload)
kino, smilutils, motion and vlc link statically against libavcodec, need a recompile once ffmpeg is fixed
smilutils, motion, kino link statically against libavcodec, but don't use the vulnerable function