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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2012-074

Posted May 15, 2012

Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2012-074 - Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in ffmpeg. The Matroska format decoder in FFmpeg does not properly allocate memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file. cavsdec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect write operation and application crash) via an invalid bitstream in a Chinese AVS video (aka CAVS) file, related to the decode_residual_block, check_for_slice, and cavs_decode_frame functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3362. Various other issues have also been addressed.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service, arbitrary, vulnerability

systems | linux, mandriva

advisories | CVE-2011-3362, CVE-2011-3504, CVE-2011-3973, CVE-2011-3974, CVE-2011-3893, CVE-2011-3895, CVE-2011-4351, CVE-2011-4352, CVE-2011-4353, CVE-2011-4364, CVE-2011-4579

SHA-256 | 84d6c91018ca31f8f470c32ca860e11e8ebe2e0ced01c5cd91935701ad5dcc51

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