Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FFmpeg, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise an application using the library.
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TITLE:
FFmpeg Vorbis Decoder Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43197
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-02-10
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DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FFmpeg, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and
potentially compromise an application using the library.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors within the Vorbis
Decoder (libavcodec/vorbis_dec.c) component when processing certain
Vorbis files, which can be exploited to e.g. cause cause a crash or
memory corruption by tricking a user into opening specially crafted
Vorbis files.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
gmaxwell and CERT.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue2322
http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue2548
http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue2550
http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=3dde66752d59dfdd0f3727efd66e7202b3c75078
http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=366d919016a679d3955f6fe5278fa7ce4f47b81e
http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=13184036a6b1b1d4b61c91118c0896e9ad4634c3
http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=925aa96915b8143017cb63418cb709b992c59065
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