vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-38291): FFmpeg vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 12, 2021
Added
Jun 9, 2022
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

FFmpeg version (git commit de8e6e67e7523e48bb27ac224a0b446df05e1640) suffers from a an assertion failure at src/libavutil/mathematics.c.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ffmpegubuntu-pro-upgrade-libavcodec-extraubuntu-pro-upgrade-libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libavcodec-ffmpeg56ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libavdevice-ffmpeg56ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libavfilter-ffmpeg5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libavformat-ffmpeg56ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libavresample-ffmpeg2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libavutil-ffmpeg54ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libpostproc-ffmpeg53ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libswresample-ffmpeg1ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libswscale-ffmpeg3ubuntu-upgrade-ffmpegubuntu-upgrade-libavcodec-extra57ubuntu-upgrade-libavcodec-extra58ubuntu-upgrade-libavcodec57ubuntu-upgrade-libavcodec58ubuntu-upgrade-libavdevice57ubuntu-upgrade-libavdevice58ubuntu-upgrade-libavfilter-extra6ubuntu-upgrade-libavfilter-extra7ubuntu-upgrade-libavfilter6ubuntu-upgrade-libavfilter7ubuntu-upgrade-libavformat-extra58ubuntu-upgrade-libavformat57ubuntu-upgrade-libavformat58ubuntu-upgrade-libavresample3ubuntu-upgrade-libavresample4ubuntu-upgrade-libavutil55ubuntu-upgrade-libavutil56ubuntu-upgrade-libpostproc54ubuntu-upgrade-libpostproc55ubuntu-upgrade-libswresample2ubuntu-upgrade-libswresample3ubuntu-upgrade-libswscale4ubuntu-upgrade-libswscale5

References

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