7.5

CVE-2006-4800: ffmpeg

CVSS: 7.5v2.0HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2006-4800
Published 14-09-2006Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-4800 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in ffmpeg. EPSS estimates a 5.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
5.30%
0%100%
Low · +0.10 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2
DSA-1215DSA-1215-1

Timeline

  1. 14-09-2006
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in libavcodec in ffmpeg before 0.4.9_p20060530 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via multiple unspecified vectors in (1) dtsdec.c, (2) vorbis.c, (3) rm.c, (4) sierravmd.c, (5) smacker.c, (6) tta.c, (7) 4xm.c, (8) alac.c, (9) cook.c, (10) shorten.c, (11) smacker.c, (12) snow.c, and (13) tta.c. NOTE: it is likely that this is a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-4048 and CVE-2006-2802.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

5.30%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

93%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.10 pp

From 5.21% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
5.30%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Debian2 products
  • ffmpeg< 0.cvs20060329-1
  • mplayer< 1.0~rc1-1
Ffmpeg1 product
  • ffmpeg0.4.6 | 0.4.7 | 0.4.8 | 0.4.9

2 vendors · 3 products

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