SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ffmpeg (SUSE-SU-2019:3184-2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 138253

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for ffmpeg fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed: CVE-2019-17542: Fixed a heap-buffer overflow in vqa_decode_chunk due to an out-of-array access (bsc#1154064).

CVE-2019-12730: Fixed an uninitialized use of variables due to an improper check (bsc#1137526).

CVE-2019-9718: Fixed a denial of service in the subtitle decode (bsc#1129715).

CVE-2018-13301: Fixed a denial of service while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4 (bsc#1100352).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP1-2020-1867=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 138253

File Name: suse_SU-2019-3184-2.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/9/2020

Updated: 12/7/2020

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17542

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavdevice57-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ffmpeg-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ffmpeg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ffmpeg-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavfilter6-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavdevice57, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavfilter6, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-13301, CVE-2019-12730, CVE-2019-17542, CVE-2019-9718

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