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Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 : libav vulnerabilities (USN-1333-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 57588

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Synopsis

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

Description

Steve Manzuik discovered that Libav 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04. (CVE-2011-3504)

Phillip Langlois discovered that Libav 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. (CVE-2011-4351)

Phillip Langlois discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed VP3 streams. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted 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-2011-4352)

Phillip Langlois discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed VP5 and VP6 streams. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted 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-2011-4353)

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed VMD files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted VMD 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-2011-4364)

Phillip Langlois discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed SVQ1 streams. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted SVQ1 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. (CVE-2011-4579).

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/1333-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 57588

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1333-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/18/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat52, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat53, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec52, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec53, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3504, CVE-2011-4351, CVE-2011-4352, CVE-2011-4353, CVE-2011-4364, CVE-2011-4579

BID: 50760, 50880, 51290, 50555

USN: 1333-1