Debian DLA-2291-1 : ffmpeg security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 139008

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed by upgrading FFmpeg, a widely used multimedia framework, from 3.2.14 to 3.2.15.

CVE-2019-13390

rawenc: Only accept the appropriate stream type for raw muxers.

CVE-2019-17542

Heap-based buffer overflow in vqa_decode_chunk.

CVE-2020-13904

Use-after-free via a crafted EXTINF duration in an m3u8 file.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 7:3.2.15-0+deb9u1.

Several other bugs are also fixed in 3.2.15, a full list of changes is available at https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/37a8ad9a3167923d50091003 1a8086489c004d83:/Changelog

We recommend that you upgrade your ffmpeg packages.

For the detailed security status of ffmpeg please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ffmpeg

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/ffmpeg

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ffmpeg

http://www.nessus.org/u?4441a2ab

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00022.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 139008

File Name: debian_DLA-2291.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/28/2020

Updated: 2/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17542

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ffmpeg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ffmpeg-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libav-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavcodec-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavcodec-extra, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavcodec-extra57, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavcodec57, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavdevice-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavdevice57, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavfilter-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavfilter-extra, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavfilter-extra6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavfilter6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavformat-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavformat57, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavresample-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavresample3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavutil-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavutil55, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpostproc-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpostproc54, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libswresample-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libswresample2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libswscale-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libswscale4, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13390, CVE-2019-17542, CVE-2020-13904