FFmpeg vulnerabilities

6 May 2019

FFmpeg vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary

FFmpeg could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description

• ffmpeg - Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files

Details

It was discovered that FFmpeg contained multiple security issues when handling certain multimedia files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04

ffmpeg - 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1

libavcodec-extra58 - 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1

libavcodec58 - 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1

libavdevice58 - 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1

libavfilter-extra7 - 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1

libavfilter7 - 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1

libavformat58 - 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1

libavresample4 - 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1

libavutil56 - 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1

libpostproc55 - 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1

libswresample3 - 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1

libswscale5 - 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1

Ubuntu 18.10

ffmpeg - 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1

libavcodec-extra58 - 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1

libavcodec58 - 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1

libavdevice58 - 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1

libavfilter-extra7 - 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1

libavfilter7 - 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1

libavformat58 - 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1

libavresample4 - 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1

libavutil56 - 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1

libpostproc55 - 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1

libswresample3 - 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1

libswscale5 - 7:4.0.4-0ubuntu1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

ffmpeg - 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libavcodec-extra57 - 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libavcodec57 - 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libavdevice57 - 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libavfilter-extra6 - 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libavfilter6 - 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libavformat57 - 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libavresample3 - 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libavutil55 - 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libpostproc54 - 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libswresample2 - 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libswscale4 - 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2018-15822
• CVE-2019-11338
• CVE-2019-11339
• CVE-2019-9718
• CVE-2019-9721