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Mageia 2019-0029 Moderate: Live Denial-Of-Service And Buffer Overflow

A bug in the server implementation of RTSP-over-HTTP in live could allow a denial-of-service attack. A bug in the server implementation of RTSP-over-HTTP could allow a buffer overflow, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code . MGASA-2019-0029 - Updated live, ffmpeg, mplayer, and vlc packages fix security vulnerabilities Publication date: 10 Jan 2019 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0029.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 6 CVE: CVE-2018-4013, CVE-2018-15822 A bug in the server implementation of RTSP-over-HTTP in live could allow a denial-of-service attack. A bug in the server implementation of RTSP-over-HTTP could allow a buffer overflow, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code when parsing a malformed RTSP stream (CVE-2018-4013). The flv_write_packet function in libavformat/flvenc.c in FFmpeg through 3.3.8 does not check for an empty audio packet, leading to an assertion failure (CVE-2018-15822). The live package has been updated to version 2018.11.26, the ffmpeg package has been updated to version 3.3.9, and the vlc package has been updated to version 3.0.5, fixing these issues and other bugs. The mplayer package has been rebuilt against the update live package to fix the RTSP-over-HTTP issues in mplayer. References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24071 - - https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-3.0/-/raw/master/NEWS - https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00275.html - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-4013 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15822 SRPMS: - 6/tainted/ffmpeg-3.3.9-1.mga6.tainted - 6/tainted/mplayer-1.3.0-13.mga6.tainted - 6/tainted/vlc-3.0.5-2.mga6.tainted - 6/core/live-2018.11.26-1.mga6 - 6/core/ffmpeg-3.3.9-1.mga6 - 6/core/mplayer-1.3.0-13.mga6 - 6/core/vlc-3.0.5-2.mga6 . Mageia 2020-0030 upgrades live, ffmpeg, mplayer, and vlc to address denial-of-service and buffer overflow vulnerabilities.. mageia security, RTSP-over-HTTP, buffer overflow fixes, denial-of-service patches. .Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jan 10, 2019 •Important Mageia