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Debian 8: DSA-3506-1 Urgent: Fixes for Libav Decoder Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey March 4, 2016
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Several vulnerabilities addressed in libav's decoder and demuxer for Debian's oldstable and stable releases.
Several security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and decoders of the libav multimedia library
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Summary

Several security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and
decoders of the libav multimedia library.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 6:0.8.17-2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), libav has been updated to
11.6-1~deb8u1 which brings several further bugfixes as detailed in
the upstream changelog:
;a=blob;f=Changelog;hb=refs/tags/v11.6

We recommend that you upgrade your libav packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: libav
CVE ID: CVE-2016-1897 CVE-2016-1898 CVE-2016-2326

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