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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2537-1 ffmpeg -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

31 Jan 2021

Affected Packages:

ffmpeg

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 979999.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-17539, CVE-2020-35965.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in ffmpeg, a widely used multimedia framework.

• CVE-2019-17539

  a NULL pointer dereference and possibly unspecified other impact when there is no valid close function pointer

• CVE-2020-35965

  an out-of-bounds write because of errors in calculations of when to perform memset zero operations

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 7:3.2.15-0+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your ffmpeg packages.

For the detailed security status of ffmpeg please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ffmpeg

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS