Debian 8: DSA-3506-1 Urgent: Fixes for Libav Decoder Vulnerabilities
debian
March 4, 2016
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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