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openSUSE: 2022:0198-1 Critical: ffmpeg Buffer Overflow Remediation

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2016
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Critical patches addressing three key vulnerabilities in FFmpeg on openSUSE platforms have just been released.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update to ffmpeg 2.8.4 fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2015-8661: Denial of service via crafted .mov file [boo#960385]

* CVE-2015-8662: Denial of service via crafted JPEG 2000 data [boo#960384]

* CVE-2015-8663: Denial of service via crafted H.264 data [boo#960383]

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security advisory denial of service update vulnerability important ffmpeg openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-26=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

ffmpeg-2.8.4-9.1

ffmpeg-debuginfo-2.8.4-9.1

ffmpeg-debugsource-2.8.4-9.1

ffmpeg-devel-2.8.4-9.1

libavcodec-devel-2.8.4-9.1

libavcodec56-2.8.4-9.1

libavcodec56-debuginfo-2.8.4-9.1

libavdevice-devel-2.8.4-9.1

libavdevice56-2.8.4-9.1

libavdevice56-debuginfo-2.8.4-9.1

libavfilter-devel-2.8.4-9.1

libavfilter5-2.8.4-9.1

libavfilter5-debuginfo-2.8.4-9.1

libavformat-devel-2.8.4-9.1

libavformat56-2.8.4-9.1

libavformat56-debuginfo-2.8.4-9.1

libavresample-devel-2.8.4-9.1

libavresample2-2.8.4-9.1

libavresample2-debuginfo-2.8.4-9.1

libavutil-devel-2.8.4-9.1

libavutil54-2.8.4-9.1

libavutil54-debuginfo-2.8.4-9.1

libpostproc-devel-2.8.4-9.1

libpostproc53-2.8.4-9.1

libpostproc53-debuginfo-2.8.4-9.1

libswresample-devel-2.8.4-9.1

libswresample1-2.8.4-9.1

libswresample1-debuginfo-2.8.4-9.1

libswscale-devel-2.8.4-9.1

libswscale3-2.8.4-9.1

libswscale3-debuginfo-2.8.4-9.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

libavcodec56-32bit-2.8.4-9.1

libavcodec56-debuginfo-32bit-2.8.4-9.1

libavdevice56-32bit-2.8.4-9.1

libavdevi...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8661.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8662.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8663.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960383

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960384

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960385

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0089-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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