CVE-2012-0850

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1478-1

Posted Jun 18, 2012

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1478-1 - Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed DV files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted DV 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 11.10. Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed NSV files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted NSV 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 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2011-3940, CVE-2011-3945, CVE-2011-3947, CVE-2011-3951, CVE-2011-3952, CVE-2011-4031, CVE-2012-0848, CVE-2012-0850, CVE-2012-0851, CVE-2012-0852, CVE-2012-0853, CVE-2012-0858, CVE-2012-0859, CVE-2012-0947, CVE-2011-3929, CVE-2011-3936, CVE-2011-3940, CVE-2011-3945, CVE-2011-3947, CVE-2011-3951, CVE-2011-3952, CVE-2011-4031, CVE-2012-0848, CVE-2012-0850, CVE-2012-0851, CVE-2012-0852, CVE-2012-0853, CVE-2012-0858

SHA-256 | d7b99bf280057e5db81eb321b972e06e69d090946831525816a876f7130e95bf

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