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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : libav vulnerabilities (USN-2309-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 77146

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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/2309-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 77146

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2309-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2014

Updated: 4/2/2025

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2014

Reference Information

USN: 2309-1