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Gentoo: GLSA-202401-13 Low Severity: FAAD2 Multiple DoS Issues

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2024
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202401-15 discloses severe vulnerabilities in the XYZ application leading to potential data breaches.
Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities have been found in FAAD2.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FAAD2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Gentoo patch multiple issues FAAD2

Resolution

All FAAD2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/faad2-2.11.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2023-38857 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38857 [ 2 ] CVE-2023-38858 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38858

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-13
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Low
Title: FAAD2: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: January 10, 2024
Bugs: #918558
ID: 202401-13

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Gentoo patch multiple issues FAAD2

Synopsis

Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities have been found in FAAD2.

Background

FAAD2 is an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC decoder.

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Affected Packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected ---------------- ------------ ------------ media-libs/faad2 < 2.11.0 >= 2.11.0

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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