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  2. USN-5958-1

USN-5958-1: FFmpeg vulnerabilities

Publication date

16 March 2023

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in FFmpeg.

Releases

Packages

  • ffmpeg - Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files

Details

It was discovered that FFmpeg could be made to dereference a null
pointer. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of
service via application crash. These issues only affected Ubuntu
16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04
LTS. (CVE-2022-3109, CVE-2022-3341)

It was discovered that FFmpeg could be made to access an out-of-bounds
frame by the Apple RPZA encoder. An attacker could possibly use this
to cause a denial of service via application crash or access sensitive
information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu
22.10. (CVE-2022-3964)

It was discovered that FFmpeg could be made to access an out-of-bounds
frame by the QuickTime encoder. An attacker could possibly use this to
cause a denial of service via application crash or access sensitive
information....

It was discovered that FFmpeg could be made to dereference a null
pointer. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of
service via application crash. These issues only affected Ubuntu
16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04
LTS. (CVE-2022-3109, CVE-2022-3341)

It was discovered that FFmpeg could be made to access an out-of-bounds
frame by the Apple RPZA encoder. An attacker could possibly use this
to cause a denial of service via application crash or access sensitive
information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu
22.10. (CVE-2022-3964)

It was discovered that FFmpeg could be made to access an out-of-bounds
frame by the QuickTime encoder. An attacker could possibly use this to
cause a denial of service via application crash or access sensitive
information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-3965)

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.10 kinetic ffmpeg –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libavcodec-extra –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libavcodec-extra59 –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libavcodec59 –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libavdevice59 –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libavfilter-extra –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libavfilter-extra8 –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libavfilter8 –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libavformat-extra –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libavformat-extra59 –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libavformat59 –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libavutil57 –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libpostproc56 –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libswresample4 –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
libswscale6 –  7:5.1.1-1ubuntu2.1
22.04 jammy ffmpeg –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libavcodec-extra –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libavcodec-extra58 –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libavcodec58 –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libavdevice58 –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libavfilter-extra –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libavfilter-extra7 –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libavfilter7 –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libavformat-extra –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libavformat-extra58 –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libavformat58 –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libavutil56 –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libpostproc55 –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libswresample3 –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
libswscale5 –  7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1  
20.04 focal ffmpeg –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavcodec-extra –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavcodec-extra58 –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavcodec58 –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavdevice58 –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavfilter-extra –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavfilter-extra7 –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavfilter7 –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavformat58 –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavresample4 –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavutil56 –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libpostproc55 –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libswresample3 –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libswscale5 –  7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
18.04 bionic ffmpeg –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavcodec-extra –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavcodec-extra57 –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavcodec57 –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavdevice57 –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavfilter-extra –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavfilter-extra6 –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavfilter6 –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavformat57 –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavresample3 –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libavutil55 –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libpostproc54 –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libswresample2 –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libswscale4 –  7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm1  
16.04 xenial ffmpeg –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  
libav-tools –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  
libavcodec-extra –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  
libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  
libavcodec-ffmpeg56 –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  
libavdevice-ffmpeg56 –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  
libavfilter-ffmpeg5 –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  
libavformat-ffmpeg56 –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  
libavresample-ffmpeg2 –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  
libavutil-ffmpeg54 –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  
libpostproc-ffmpeg53 –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  
libswresample-ffmpeg1 –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  
libswscale-ffmpeg3 –  7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm5  

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