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TITLE:
FFmpeg Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46736

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-11-07

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DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FFmpeg, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and
potentially compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to various errors and can be
exploited to e.g. cause out-of-bounds reads and writes, double-frees,
and buffer overflows via e.g. specially crafted media content.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 0.7.7 and
0.8.6.

SOLUTION:
Update to versions 0.7.7 and 0.8.6.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://ffmpeg.org/#pr7dot7and8dot6

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