Gentoo: GLSA 200609-09 Normal: FFmpeg Buffer Overflow Risk

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200609-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: FFmpeg: Buffer overflows Date: September 13, 2006 Bugs: #133520 ID: 200609-09

Synopsis ======= FFmpeg is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows that might be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= FFmpeg is a very fast video and audio converter.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/ffmpeg < 0.4.9_p20060530 >= 0.4.9_p20060530
========== FFmpeg contains buffer overflows in the AVI processing code.
Impact ===== An attacker could trigger the buffer overflows by enticing a user to load a specially crafted AVI file in an application us...