Debian DSA-3506-1 : libav - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 89696

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and decoders of the libav multimedia library.

Solution

Upgrade the libav packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 6:0.8.17-2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), libav has been updated to 6:11.6-1~deb8u1 which brings several further bugfixes as detailed in the upstream changelog:
https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=Changelog;hb=refs/tags/v11 .6

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3beefed6

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/libav

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3506

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89696

File Name: debian_DSA-3506.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libav, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1897, CVE-2016-1898, CVE-2016-2326

DSA: 3506