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Fedora 41: ffmpeg 2025-ab5fe60520 Security Advisory Updates

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 41 releases critical ffmpeg update fixing segmentation violation CVE-2025-22921. Enhance your multimedia security!
Latest maintenance release from 7.1 branch

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:

Latest maintenance release from 7.1 branch. Changelog: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n7.1.1/Changelog . Contains backported fix for CVE-2025-22921.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update information memory leak ffmpeg maintenance release segmentation violation

Change Log

* Thu Mar 6 2025 Dominik Mierzejewski - 7.1.1-1 - Update to 7.1.1 (resolves rhbz#2349351) - Enable LC3 codec via liblc3 - Backport fix for CVE-2025-22921 (resolves rhbz#2346558)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2346558 - CVE-2025-22921 ffmpeg: Segmentation Violation in FFmpeg [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346558 [ 2 ] Bug #2346566 - CVE-2025-25468 ffmpeg: Memory Leak in FFmpeg libavutil/mem.c [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346566 [ 3 ] Bug #2349351 - ffmpeg-7.1.1 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2349351

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-ab5fe60520' 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

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Name: ffmpeg
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 7.1.1
Release: 1.fc41
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 update information memory leak ffmpeg maintenance release segmentation violation

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