Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : ffmpeg vulnerabilities (USN-1209-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56236

Synopsis

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

Description

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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.10.
(CVE-2011-1196)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed AMV files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted AMV 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 10.10.
(CVE-2011-1931)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed APE files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted APE file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash.
(CVE-2011-2161)

Emmanouel Kellinis discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed CAVS files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted CAVS 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-2011-3362).

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 libavcodec52 and / or libavformat52 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1209-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56236

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1209-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/20/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec52, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat52, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1196, CVE-2011-1931, CVE-2011-2161, CVE-2011-3362

BID: 47602, 49115

USN: 1209-1