DSA-992-1 ffmpeg -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-992-1 ffmpeg -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

10 Mar 2006

Affected Packages:

ffmpeg

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 342207.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-4048.

More information:

Simon Kilvington discovered that specially crafted PNG images can trigger a heap overflow in libavcodec, the multimedia library of ffmpeg, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) doesn't contain ffmpeg packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.cvs20050313-2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.cvs20050918-5.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ffmpeg package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc-dev_0.cvs20050313-2sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.