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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2977-1 libav -- security update

Date Reported:

11 Jul 2014

Affected Packages:

libav

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-4609.

More information:

Don A. Baley discovered an integer overflow in the lzo compression handler which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 6:0.8.13-1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 6:10.2-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 6:10.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libav packages.