USN-5958-1: FFmpeg vulnerabilities

16 March 2023

Several security issues were fixed in FFmpeg.

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Releases

Packages

  • ffmpeg - Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files

Details

It was discovered that FFmpeg could be made to dereference a null
pointer. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of
service via application crash. These issues only affected Ubuntu
16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04
LTS. (CVE-2022-3109, CVE-2022-3341)

It was discovered that FFmpeg could be made to access an out-of-bounds
frame by the Apple RPZA encoder. An attacker could possibly use this
to cause a denial of service via application crash or access sensitive
information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu
22.10. (CVE-2022-3964)

It was discovered that FFmpeg could be made to access an out-of-bounds
frame by the QuickTime encoder. An attacker could possibly use this to
cause a denial of service via application crash or access sensitive
information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-3965)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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