CVE-2009-0385

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-0385
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-02-02 19:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionInteger signedness error in the fourxm_read_header function in libavformat/4xm.c in FFmpeg before revision 16846 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed 4X movie file with a large current_track value, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 9.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 7.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 5.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 10 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 9 All All All
Application Ffmpeg Ffmpeg All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: xine-lib-1.1.16.3-1.fc9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
FFmpeg 4xm Processing Memory Corruption Vulnerability - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: xine-lib-1.1.16.3-1.fc10 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
git.ffmpeg.org Git - ffmpeg/commitdiff af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.ffmpeg.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:297 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1782-1 mplayer af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Ubuntu update for ffmpeg - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Gentoo update for ffmpeg, gst-plugins-ffmpeg, and mplayer - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2009-004.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trapkit.de Third Party Advisory
Debian update for ffmpeg - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- FFmpeg: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Third Party Advisory
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 svn.mplayerhq.hu Broken Link
USN-734-1: FFmpeg vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Debian update for mplayer - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1781-1 ffmpeg-debian af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
osvdb.org/51643 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org Broken Link
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 svn.mplayerhq.hu Broken Link
FFmpeg 'libavformat/4xm.c' Remote Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Fedora update for xine-lib - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
git.ffmpeg.org Git - ffmpeg/commitdiff MITRE git.ffmpeg.org
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