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Debian Jessie: DLA-2021-1 Moderate: Libav DoS and Buffer Overflow Fixes

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Calendar Grey December 5, 2019
Dist Debian Esm H88
Tackling vulnerabilities in libav to avert system halts and buffer overruns. Update libraries for improved protection.
Several security issues were fixed in libav, a multimedia library for processing audio and video files

Summary

CVE-2017-17127

The vc1_decode_frame function in libavcodec/vc1dec.c allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference
and application crash) via a crafted file.
CVE-2018-19130 is a duplicate of this vulnerability.

CVE-2017-18245

The mpc8_probe function in libavformat/mpc8.c allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer
over-read) via a crafted audio file on 32-bit systems.

CVE-2018-19128

Heap-based buffer over-read in decode_frame in libavcodec/lcldec.c
allows an attacker to cause denial-of-service via a crafted avi
file.

CVE-2019-14443

Division by zero in range_decode_culshift in libavcodec/apedec.c
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application
crash), as demonstrated by avconv.

CVE-2019-17542

Heap-based buffer overflow in vqa_decode_chunk because of an
out-of-array access in vqa_decode_init in libavcodec/vqavideo.c.

Read the Full Advisory


Package: libav
Version: 6:11.12-1~deb8u9
CVE ID: CVE-2017-17127 CVE-2017-18245 CVE-2018-19128 CVE-2018-19130

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