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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : FFmpeg vulnerabilities (USN-8915-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 365762

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8915-1 advisory.

 Momoko Shiraishi discovered that FFmpeg did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-30754)

 It was discovered that FFmpeg did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-38344)

 It was discovered that FFmpeg did not correctly handle certain arithmetic operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-38346, CVE-2026-38348, CVE-2026-38349)

 It was discovered that FFmpeg did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-38347)

 It was discovered that FFmpeg did not correctly handle certain arithmetic operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-38350)

 Joshua Rogers discovered that FFmpeg did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2026-75147)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8915-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 365762

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8915-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2026

Updated: 10/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7

Percentile: 98.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-30754

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-75147

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ffmpeg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libav-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec-extra57, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec-extra58, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec-extra60, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec-extra62, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec-ffmpeg56, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec57, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec58, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec60, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec62, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavdevice-ffmpeg56, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavdevice57, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavdevice58, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavdevice60, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavdevice62, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter-extra11, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter-extra6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter-extra7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter-extra9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter-ffmpeg5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter11, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavfilter9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat-extra58, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat-extra60, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat-extra62, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat-ffmpeg56, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat57, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat58, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat60, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat62, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavresample-ffmpeg2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavresample3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavresample4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavutil-ffmpeg54, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavutil55, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavutil56, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavutil58, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavutil60, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpostproc-ffmpeg53, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpostproc54, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpostproc55, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpostproc57, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswresample-ffmpeg1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswresample2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswresample3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswresample4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswresample6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswscale-ffmpeg3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswscale4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswscale5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswscale7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libswscale9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-30754, CVE-2026-38344, CVE-2026-38346, CVE-2026-38347, CVE-2026-38348, CVE-2026-38349, CVE-2026-38350, CVE-2026-75147

IAVB: 2026-B-0169-S

USN: 8915-1