CVE-2006-4799

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in ffmpeg for xine-lib before 1.1.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted AVI file and "bad indexes", a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-4048 and CVE-2006-2802.

Affected products

Xine-Lib: through 1.1.1; 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22230
http://secunia.com/advisories/23010
http://secunia.com/advisories/23213
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200609-09.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-358-1
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1215
http://xinehq.de/index.php/news
http://secunia.com/advisories/22230
http://secunia.com/advisories/23010
http://secunia.com/advisories/23213
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200609-09.xml

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