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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-4799: FFmpeg: Buffer overflows

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-4799: FFmpeg: Buffer overflows

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/14/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-video-ffmpeg

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