USN-1209-1: FFmpeg vulnerabilities
19 September 2011
FFmpeg could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- ffmpeg - multimedia player, server and encoder
Details
It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed ogg
files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted ogg 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-2011-1196)
It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed AMV
files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted AMV 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-2011-1931)
It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed APE
files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted APE file, an attacker
could cause a denial of service via application crash. (CVE-2011-2161)
Emmanouel Kellinis discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain
malformed CAVS files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted CAVS
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-2011-3362)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-1209-2: libavformat52, libavcodec52, libav