DSA-4119-1 libav -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-16803  

Several security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and decoders of the libav multimedia library. A full list of the changes is available at https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=Changelog;hb=refs/tags/v11.12 For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 6:11.12-1~deb8u1. We recommend that you upgrade your libav packages. For the detailed security status of libav please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libav

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4119-1 libav -- security update

Date Reported:
19 Feb 2018
Affected Packages:
libav
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-16803.
More information:

Several security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and decoders of the libav multimedia library. A full list of the changes is available at https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=Changelog;hb=refs/tags/v11.12

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 6:11.12-1~deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libav packages.

For the detailed security status of libav please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libav