Bug#694483: CVEs: CVE-2012-2882 CVE-2012-5359 CVE-2012-5360 CVE-2012-5361

Arne Wichmann aw at anhrefn.saar.de
Fri Jan 4 13:07:03 UTC 2013


begin  quotation  from Reinhard Tartler (in <CAJ0ccebL3xSmM+swoK3ocFxSOrE9nQ-yyy7r8_4zyazJT5mX1g at mail.gmail.com>):
> Thanks for caring about security in libav. Sorry for the delay. I
> tried hard to gather additional information about these issues, but
> was not successful.

Yeah, the information politics of the reporters could be more open.

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Arne Wichmann <aw at linux.de> wrote:
> 
> > I have here another series of CVEs for ffmpeg/libav:
> >
> > CVE-2012-2882
> 
> Libav's ogg decoder is a bit different to the one in FFmpeg. Can you
> please provide a testfile so that we can test if this issue affects
> Libav at all?

I dug around for a bit and found commit
9e1c55cfdec1e1e46fa39b92ea5c425ba9499c68 for ffmpeg, which seems to address
the issue. More effort will follow when I find the reserves for that.

> > CVE-2012-5359
> > CVE-2012-5360
> > CVE-2012-5361
> >
> > For the last 3 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/msvr/msvr12-017
> > claims that they are fixed in ffmpeg 0.11, but the available information on
> > all of them is a bit thin.
> 
> Sorry, without proper information what's going on here, there is
> nothing that we can do about this. Again, please provide a sample that
> demonstrates the issue.

*nod*

Same here.

cu

AW
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Arne Wichmann (aw at linux.de)
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