USN-3283-1: rtmpdump vulnerabilities
9 May 2017
rtmpdump could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it processed a specially crafted stream.
Releases
Packages
- rtmpdump - small dumper for media content streamed over the RTMP protocol
Details
Dave McDaniel discovered that rtmpdump incorrectly handled certain
malformed streams. If a user were tricked into processing a specially
crafted stream, a remote attacker could cause rtmpdump to crash, resulting
in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.