Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : ffmpeg vulnerabilities (USN-1104-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 53296

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Cesar Bernardini and Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed flic files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted flic 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 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-3429)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed wmv files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted wmv 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 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-3908)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed ogg files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted ogg 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. (CVE-2010-4704)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed WebM files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted WebM 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. (CVE-2011-0480)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed RealMedia files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted RealMedia 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 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2011-0722)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed VC1 files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted VC1 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. (CVE-2011-0723).

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1104-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 53296

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1104-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/5/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ffmpeg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ffmpeg-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ffmpeg-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec1d, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec52, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavdevice-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavdevice52, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat1d, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat52, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavutil-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavutil1d, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavutil49, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavutil50, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpostproc-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpostproc1d, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpostproc51, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswscale-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswscale0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswscale1d, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 4/4/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3429, CVE-2010-3908, CVE-2010-4704, CVE-2011-0480, CVE-2011-0722, CVE-2011-0723

USN: 1104-1