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openSUSE: Fix for Moderate Vulnerabilities in ffmpeg-4 CVE-2024-36618

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Calendar Grey August 25, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The recent ffmpeg-4 security patch for openSUSE is crucial for addressing vulnerabilities, ensuring secure multimedia processing and preventing potential exploits.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three security fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for ffmpeg-4 fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2024-36618: Fixed integer overflow iff ULONG_MAX < INT64_MAX

(bsc#1234020).

* CVE-2025-7700: Fixed potential NULL pointer dereference (bsc#1246790).

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security advisory moderate security issue null pointer OpenSUSE ffmpeg-4

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 SUSE-2025-2972=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2025-2972=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-2972=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-2972=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP4-2025-2972=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* ffmpeg-4-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* ffmpeg-4-private-devel-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libswscale5_9-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libavformat58_76-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* ffmpeg-4-libavdevice-devel-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libavformat58_76-debuginfo-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libavutil56_70-debuginfo-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libavcodec58_134-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* ffmpeg-4-libswresample-devel-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* ffmpeg-4-libavutil-devel-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libavdevice58_13-debuginfo-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* ffmpeg-4-debugsource-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libavutil56_70-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* ffmpeg-4-libavresample-devel-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libavcodec58_134-debuginfo-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libswresample3_9-debuginfo-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* ffmpeg-4-libpostproc-devel-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libavdevice58_13-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libpostproc55_9-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libavresample4_0-debuginfo-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

* libavfilter7_110-debuginfo-4.4.6-150400.3.52.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1234018

* bsc#1234019

* bsc#1234020

* bsc#1245313

* bsc#1246790

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36618.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7700.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234018

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234019

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234020

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245313

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246790

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02972-1
Release Date: 2025-08-25T08:46:44Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4

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