USN-2534-1: Libav vulnerabilities
17 March 2015
Libav could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- libav - Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder
Details
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.04
This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.