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SUSE: 2025:02972-1 ffmpeg-4 Moderate Risk Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey August 25, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
The latest FFmpeg-4 security update for SUSE addresses two critical medium severity vulnerabilities and provides detailed instructions for implementing updates
* bsc#1234018 * bsc#1234019 * bsc#1234020 * bsc#1245313 * bsc#1246790

Summary

## 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). ## 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

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References

* bsc#1234018

* bsc#1234019

* bsc#1234020

* bsc#1245313

* bsc#1246790

Cross-

* CVE-2024-36618

* CVE-2025-7700

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2024-36618 ( SUSE ): 6.9

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2024-36618 ( SUSE ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2024-36618 ( NVD ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2025-7700 ( SUSE ): 6.9

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-7700 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02972-1
Release Date: 2025-08-25T08:46:44Z
Rating: moderate

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