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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1320-1

Posted Jan 6, 2012

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1320-1 - Steve Manzuik discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed Matroska files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Matroska 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. Phillip Langlois discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed QDM2 streams. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted QDM2 stream 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. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2011-3504, CVE-2011-4351, CVE-2011-4352, CVE-2011-4353, CVE-2011-4364, CVE-2011-4579

SHA-256 | a9a389e4bfa1f5d2695f6a9028933605018f3a4717dcf6326716b24471d670a2

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