The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6803-1 advisory.

    Zeng Yunxiang and Song Jiaxuan discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential     arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-49501)

    Zeng Yunxiang and Song Jiaxuan discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential     arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS,     Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-49502)

    Zhang Ling and Zeng Yunxiang discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential     arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-49528)

    Zeng Yunxiang discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary code     execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-50007)

    Zeng Yunxiang and Song Jiaxuan discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential     arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-50008)

    Zeng Yunxiang discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary code     execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-50009)

    Zeng Yunxiang discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary code     execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS     and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-50010)

    Zeng Yunxiang and Li Zeyuan discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential     arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-51793)

    Zeng Yunxiang discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary code     execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.10.
    (CVE-2023-51794, CVE-2023-51798)

    Zeng Yunxiang discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary code     execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-51795, CVE-2023-51796)

    It was discovered that discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary     code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu     23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-31578)

    It was discovered that discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary     code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-31582)

    It was discovered that discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potential arbitrary     code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2024-31585)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 / 24.04 LTS : FFmpeg vulnerabilities (USN-6803-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 198152

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Version 1.5 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.4 Aug 9, 2024, 12:46 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity Plugin Feed: 202408091246
Version 1.3 Aug 9, 2024, 10:04 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202408091004
Version 1.2 Jul 3, 2024, 6:50 AM CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2023-49502") Plugin Feed: 202407030650
Version 1.1 May 30, 2024, 8:07 PM New Plugin Feed: 202405302007