Bug#492806: libavformat52: does not handle STR file demuxing (CVE-2008-3162)

Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 23:12:54 UTC 2008


Package: libavformat52
Version: 0.svn20080206-11
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

ubuntu just updated their libavformat packages to patch a problem with
STR file demuxing [1].  does this problem apply to debian as well?  the
CVE number is CVE-2008-3162 [2].

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-630-1
[2] http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-3162

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libavformat52 depends on:
ii  libavcodec51           0.svn20080206-11  ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavutil49            0.svn20080206-11  ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6                  2.7-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

libavformat52 recommends no packages.

libavformat52 suggests no packages.

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