Security Information / 2017 / Security Information -- DSA-3957-1 ffmpeg

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3957-1 ffmpeg -- security update

Date Reported:

28 Aug 2017

Affected Packages:

ffmpeg

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9608, CVE-2017-9993, CVE-2017-11399, CVE-2017-11665, CVE-2017-11719.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in FFmpeg, a multimedia player, server and encoder. These issues could lead to Denial-of-Service and, in some situation, the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2017-9608

  Yihan Lian of Qihoo 360 GearTeam discovered a NULL pointer access when parsing a crafted MOV file.

• CVE-2017-9993

  Thierry Foucu discovered that it was possible to leak information from files and symlinks ending in common multimedia extensions, using the HTTP Live Streaming.

• CVE-2017-11399

  Liu Bingchang of IIE discovered an integer overflow in the APE decoder that can be triggered by a crafted APE file.

• CVE-2017-11665

  JunDong Xie of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab discovered that an attacker able to craft a RTMP stream can crash FFmpeg.

• CVE-2017-11719

  Liu Bingchang of IIE discovered an out-of-bound access that can be triggered by a crafted DNxHD file.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 7:3.2.7-1~deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ffmpeg packages.