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Ubuntu 19.04: USN-3988-1 Critical: MediaInfo DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey May 16, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Vulnerabilities in MediaInfo may lead to system failures while handling specially designed files, affecting users of Ubuntu systems. Patches are now released.
MediaInfo could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

MediaInfo could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- libmediainfo: library reading metadata from media files

Details:

It was discovered that MediaInfo contained multiple security issues

when

handling certain multimedia files. If a user were tricked into opening

a

crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause MediaInfo to crash,

resulting

in a denial of service.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service vulnerability ubuntu libmediainfo multimedia file

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04:
  libmediainfo0v5                 18.12-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.10:
  libmediainfo0v5                 18.03.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libmediainfo0v5                 17.12-1ubuntu0.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3988-1

CVE-2019-11372, CVE-2019-11373

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May 16, 2019

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service vulnerability ubuntu libmediainfo multimedia file

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmediainfo/18.12-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmediainfo/18.03.1-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmediainfo/17.12-1ubuntu0.1

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