Vulnerability in Ffmpeg

CVE-2008-4869

FFmpeg 0.4.9, as used by MPlayer, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unknown vectors, aka a "Tcp/udp memory leak."

Published 2008-11-01 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.023 (82.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 82.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Ffmpeg — versions 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2
Mplayer

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-399

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46326 (vdb-entry)
archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-09/0103.html (mailing-list)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/6 (mailing-list)
secunia.com/advisories/34385 (third-party-advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-33.xml (vendor-advisory)
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)