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Mageia 7: MGASA-2021-0273 Critical: ffmpeg Out-Of-Bounds Write

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The recent Mageia updates for ffmpeg resolve the CVE-2020-35965 security issue, with critical patches released on 23 June 2021.
An out-of-bounds write in decode_frame in libavcodec/exr.c because of errors in calculations of when to perform memset zero operations (CVE-2020-35965)

Summary

An out-of-bounds write in decode_frame in libavcodec/exr.c because of errors in calculations of when to perform memset zero operations (CVE-2020-35965).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28276

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00026.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35965

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical ffmpeg out-of-bounds write Mageia CVE-2020-35965

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/tainted/ffmpeg-4.1.6-1.1.mga7.tainted

- 7/core/ffmpeg-4.1.6-1.1.mga7

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Publication date: 23 Jun 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0273.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-35965

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical ffmpeg out-of-bounds write Mageia CVE-2020-35965

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