Ubuntu Security Notice 1320-1 - 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. 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. Various other issues were also addressed.
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1320-1
January 05, 2012
ffmpeg vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 10.10
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
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 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.10. (CVE-2011-4352)
Phillip Langlois discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain
malformed VP5 and VP6 streams. If a user were tricked into opening a
crafted 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-2011-4353)
It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed VMD
files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted VMD 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-2011-4364)
Phillip Langlois discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain
malformed SVQ1 streams. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted SVQ1
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-2011-4579)
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:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1320-1
CVE-2011-3504, CVE-2011-4351, CVE-2011-4352, CVE-2011-4353,
CVE-2011-4364, CVE-2011-4579
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