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Ubuntu: USN-2944-1 (CVE-2016-2330): Libav vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2944-1 (CVE-2016-2330): Libav vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/04/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

libavcodec/gif.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.6 does not properly calculate a buffer size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .tga file, related to the gif_image_write_image, gif_encode_init, and gif_encode_close functions.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libavcodec53
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libavformat53

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