CVE-2008-4868: Ffmpeg

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

Affected products

• Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: up to and including 0.4.9; version 0.3 only; version 0.3.1 only; version 0.3.2 only; version 0.3.3 only; version 0.3.4 only; …

Published 2008-11-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.