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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ffmpeg (SUSE-SU-2021:3293-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 153917

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3293-1 advisory.

 - A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak is affected by: memory leak in the link_filter_inouts function in libavfilter/graphparser.c. (CVE-2020-22042)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186761

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-22042

http://www.nessus.org/u?b7ad3f60

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 153917

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3293-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2021

Updated: 7/13/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-22042

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libswresample-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavformat-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavresample3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavcodec57, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ffmpeg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavresample3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavcodec-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavutil-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavfilter6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavresample-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libswscale-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavutil55, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libswresample2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libswscale4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavdevice57, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavformat57, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavresample3-64bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpostproc54, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpostproc-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-22042

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3293-1