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Debian 3.1: DSA 992-1 Moderate: Ffmpeg Buffer Overflow Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2006
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Ubuntu addresses vulnerability in ffmpeg that could allow arbitrary code execution. Users are advised to update their systems to safeguard against potential attacks.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.cvs20050313-2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.cvs20050918-5.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ffmpeg package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 788 c342177de5cb29b6cbe7466913177eb5
Size/MD5 checksum: 10168 b166812b4f1a0a42958ab688a6a9b5c3
Size/MD5 checksum: 1826023 2ac646fe7c2788df7cd23c1149d08bfa

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 c...

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