Debian Security Advisory

DSA-992-1 ffmpeg -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

10 Mar 2006

Affected Packages:

ffmpeg

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 342207.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-4048.

More information:

Simon Kilvington discovered that specially crafted PNG images can trigger a heap overflow in libavcodec, the multimedia library of ffmpeg, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) doesn't contain ffmpeg packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.cvs20050313-2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.cvs20050918-5.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ffmpeg package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.