Debian DSA-2165-1 : ffmpeg-debian - buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 52028

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in FFmpeg coders, which are used by MPlayer and other applications.

- CVE-2010-3429 Cesar Bernardini and Felipe Andres Manzano reported an arbitrary offset dereference vulnerability in the libavcodec, in particular in the FLIC file format parser. A specific FLIC file may exploit this vulnerability and execute arbitrary code. Mplayer is also affected by this problem, as well as other software that use this library.

- CVE-2010-4704 Greg Maxwell discovered an integer overflow the Vorbis decoder in FFmpeg. A specific Ogg file may exploit this vulnerability and execute arbitrary code.

- CVE-2010-4705 A potential integer overflow has been discovered in the Vorbis decoder in FFmpeg.

This upload also fixes an incomplete patch from DSA-2000-1. Michael Gilbert noticed that there was remaining vulnerabilities, which may cause a denial of service and potentially execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the ffmpeg-debian packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.svn20080206-18+lenny3.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 52028

File Name: debian_DSA-2165.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/20/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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:debian:debian_linux:ffmpeg-debian, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3429, CVE-2010-4704, CVE-2010-4705

BID: 43546, 46294

DSA: 2165

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