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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : libav vulnerabilities (USN-2025-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 70844

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted media 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.

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 libavcodec53 and / or libavformat53 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2025-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 70844

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2025-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat53, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec53

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2013

Reference Information

USN: 2025-1