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Fedora 40: ffmpeg 2025-34c88263fe Security Advisory Updates

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora issues an advisory for ffmpeg addressing a backported fix for CVE-2024-12361, critical for system security.
Backported fix for CVE-2024-12361 .

Summary

FFmpeg is a leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode,

mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and

machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the

cutting edge. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the

community or a corporation.

This build of ffmpeg is limited in the number of codecs supported.

Update Information:

Backported fix for CVE-2024-12361 .

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow threat ffmpeg CVE-2024-12361

Change Log

* Fri Mar 7 2025 Dominik Mierzejewski - 6.1.2-2 - Backport fix for CVE-2024-12361 (resolves rhbz#2331085)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2331085 - CVE-2024-12361 ffmpeg: FFmpeg NULL Pointer Dereference [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2331085

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-34c88263fe' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

Name: ffmpeg
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 6.1.2
Release: 2.fc40
URL: https://ffmpeg.org/
Summary: A complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow threat ffmpeg CVE-2024-12361

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