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CVE-2008-4869

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4869 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in FFmpeg 0.4.9, specifically when used by MPlayer, due to a "Tcp/udp memory leak" that leads to excessive memory consumption. This vulnerability carries a critical CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity that can result in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.4.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:pre1:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0232 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/fulldisclosure/2008-09/0103.html
secunia.com / advisories/34385
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200903-33.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46326
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/6