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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS & 10.10 USN-1320-1 Critical: FFmpeg Application Threats

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2012
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Recent FFmpeg vulnerabilities can cause system failures or expose risks of arbitrary code execution. It's vital to upgrade Ubuntu to fortify against maliciously crafted content.
FFmpeg could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

FFmpeg could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- ffmpeg: multimedia player, server and encoder

Details:

Steve Manzuik discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed

Matroska files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Matroska

file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or

possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking

the program. (CVE-2011-3504)

Phillip Langlois discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain

malformed QDM2 streams. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted QDM2

stream file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application

crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user

invoking the program. (CVE-2011-4351)

Phillip Langlois discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain

malformed VP3 streams. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted fi...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 10.10:
  libavcodec52                    4:0.6-2ubuntu6.3
  libavformat52                   4:0.6-2ubuntu6.3

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  libavcodec52                    4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.3
  libavformat52                   4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1320-1

CVE-2011-3504, CVE-2011-4351, CVE-2011-4352, CVE-2011-4353,

CVE-2011-4364, CVE-2011-4579

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg/4:0.6-2ubuntu6.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg/4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.3

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