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Debian 7 DLA-1077-1 Critical: faad2 DoS Security Update

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Calendar Grey August 30, 2017
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Enhance faad2 to fortify your infrastructure against service disruption exploits resulting from malicious mp4 media files.
Various security issues were discovered in faad2, a fast audio decoder, that would allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash due to memory failures or ...
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Summary

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version
2.7-8+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your faad2 packages.

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


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Package: faad2
Version: 2.7-8+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2017-9218 CVE-2017-9219 CVE-2017-9220 CVE-2017-9221
Debian Bug: 867724

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