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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3850-1 rtmpdump -- security update

Date Reported:

12 May 2017

Affected Packages:

rtmpdump

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-8270, CVE-2015-8271, CVE-2015-8272.

More information:

Dave McDaniel discovered multiple vulnerabilities in rtmpdump, a small dumper/library for RTMP media streams, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed stream is dumped.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.4+20150115.gita107cef-1+deb8u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.4+20151223.gitfa8646d.1-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.4+20151223.gitfa8646d.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rtmpdump packages.