CVE-2006-4800: Ffmpeg

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: version 0.4.6 only; version 0.4.7 only; version 0.4.8 only; version 0.4.9 only

Published 2006-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.