CVE-2008-4869
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 2.3%EU EUVD
FFmpeg 0.4.9, as used by MPlayer, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unknown vectors, aka a "Tcp/udp memory leak."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 2.3% (84th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4848)
- Published
- November 1, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4848 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
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- ffmpeg / ffmpeg
- mplayer / mplayer
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-09/0103.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34385
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-33.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:297
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/6
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46326
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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