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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1809-1 libav -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

29 May 2019

Affected Packages:

libav

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-15822, CVE-2019-11338.

More information:

Two more security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and decoders of the libav multimedia library.

• CVE-2018-15822

  The flv_write_packet function in libavformat/flvenc.c in libav did not check for an empty audio packet, leading to an assertion failure.

• CVE-2019-11338

  libavcodec/hevcdec.c in libav mishandled detection of duplicate first slices, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and out-of-array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted HEVC data.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 6:11.12-1~deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your libav packages.

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