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openSUSE 15.4/15.5 Moderate: ffmpeg Integer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2023
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This patch addresses significant vulnerabilities in ffmpeg, particularly a moderate risk integer overflow impacting Fedora platforms.
This update for ffmpeg fixes the following issues: CVE-2021-28429: Fixed Integer overflow vulnerability in av_timecode_make_string in libavutil/timecode.c (bsc#1214246).

Description

This update for ffmpeg fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2021-28429: Fixed Integer overflow vulnerability in

av_timecode_make_string in libavutil/timecode.c (bsc#1214246).

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security advisory software update moderate severity integer overflow ffmpeg openSUSE patch instructions

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-3818=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-3818=1

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP4-2023-3818=1

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP5-2023-3818=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP4-2023-3818=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP5-2023-3818=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-WE-15-SP4-2023-3818=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-WE-15-SP5-2023-3818=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libavresample3-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavutil55-debuginfo-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavutil-devel-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libpostproc-devel-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libswscale4-debuginfo-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavformat57-debuginfo-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavfilter-devel-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavformat57-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavdevice57-debuginfo-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* ffmpeg-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavcodec-devel-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavutil55-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavfilter6-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavcodec57-debuginfo-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavcodec57-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libswresample2-debuginfo-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libswscale-devel-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavresample3-debuginfo-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libpostproc54-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libswresample2-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libavfilter6-debuginfo-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* ffmpeg-private-devel-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

* libswresample-devel-3.4.2-150200.11.31.1

*...

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References

* #1214246

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28429.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214246

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:3818-1
Rating: moderate

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