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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-4800 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133520 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/21921 CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22180 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22181 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22182 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22198 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22200 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22201 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22202 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22203 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22230 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23010 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23213 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-09.xml CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:173 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:174 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:175 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:176 CVE, MITRE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20009 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-358-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1215 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-4800
NVD Published Date:
09/14/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
MITRE