CVE-2006-4800
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 5.3% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-4787)
- Published
- September 14, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-4787 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133520
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21921(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22180
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22181
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22182
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22198
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22200
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22201
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22202
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22203
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22230
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23010
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23213
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-09.xml(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:173
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:174
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:175
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:176
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20009(Patch)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-358-1
- http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1215
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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