CVE-2008-4868

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2008-4868 · Published 01/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-4868 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting ffmpeg (ffmpeg).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.3%, higher than 83.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ffmpeg ffmpeg	`= 0.3= 0.3.1= 0.3.2= 0.3.3= 0.3.4= 0.4.0= 0.4.2= 0.4.3= 0.4.4= 0.4.5= 0.4.6= 0.4.7= 0.4.8≤ 0.4.9`	No fix yet

Description

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."

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

ffmpeg

= 0.3= 0.3.1= 0.3.2= 0.3.3= 0.3.4= 0.4.0= 0.4.2= 0.4.3= 0.4.4= 0.4.5= 0.4.6= 0.4.7= 0.4.8≤ 0.4.9

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