MDKSA-2005:232 - Updated gstreamer-ffmpeg packages fix buffer overflow vulnerability

Posted by Bob on: 12/15/2005 02:12 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

The Mandriva Security Team published a new security update: MDKSA-2005:232 - Updated gstreamer-ffmpeg packages fix buffer overflow vulnerability for Mandriva Linux. Here the announcement:

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2005:232
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : gstreamer-ffmpeg
Date : December 14, 2005
Affected: 2006.0
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Problem Description:

Simon Kilvington discovered a vulnerability in FFmpeg libavcodec,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial
of Service) and potentially to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the
"avcodec_default_get_buffer()" function of "utils.c" in libavcodec.
This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow when a
specially-crafted 1x1 ".png" file containing a palette is read.

Gstreamer-ffmpeg is built with a private copy of ffmpeg containing
this same code.

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this problem.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4048
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
1e7f7ad8be3efcc5152901d1de9050c7 2006.0/RPMS/gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.8.6-1.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
2923eb22aafa7aedd073516e47a7d94f 2006.0/SRPMS/gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.8.6-1.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64:
617b165113eb1af7e805d7c2423a771b x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.8.6-1.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
2923eb22aafa7aedd073516e47a7d94f x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.8.6-1.1.20060mdk.src.rpm
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All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
lt;security*mandriva.comgt;
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