CVE-2008-4866

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-11-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in libavformat/utils.c in FFmpeg 0.4.9 before r14715, as used by MPlayer, allow context-dependent attackers to have an unknown impact via vectors related to execution of DTS generation code with a delay greater than MAX_REORDER_DELAY.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 0.4.9; 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.4.0 (+7)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-09/0103.html
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-August/016011.html
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-August/016012.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34296
http://secunia.com/advisories/34385
http://secunia.com/advisories/34845
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-33.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1782
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:013
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:015
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33308

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