CVE-2008-4868 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ffmpeg (opens in a new tab)
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- published1 Nov 2008
- disclosed1 Nov 2008
Introduced: 1 Nov 2008
CVE-2008-4868 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ffmpeg package and not the ffmpeg package as distributed by Debian.
Unspecified vulnerability in the avcodec_close function in libavcodec/utils.c in FFmpeg 0.4.9 before r14787, as used by MPlayer, has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to a free "on random pointers."
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4868
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-33.xml
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-09/0103.html
- http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-August/016136.html
- http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46325
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/6
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34385
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46325