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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-2309-1 Moderate: libav Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey August 11, 2014
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Recent Libav security flaws identified in Ubuntu systems, threatening potential denial of service or arbitrary code execution via specially designed files.
Libav could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

Libav could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a

specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- libav: Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder

Details:

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed media

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update ubuntu libav

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libavcodec53                    4:0.8.15-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  libavformat53                   4:0.8.15-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2309-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/+bug/1354755

August 11, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update ubuntu libav

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/4:0.8.15-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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