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Debian update for ffmpeg


Secunia ID

SA49561

CVE-ID

CVE-2011-3951, CVE-2011-3952, CVE-2012-0851, CVE-2012-0852

Release Date

15 Jun 2012

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

Debian has issued an update for ffmpeg. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA47383 (#30)
SA47765 (#14 and #15)

Solution

Apply updated packages via the apt-get package manager.

Original Advisory

DSA-2494-1:
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2494