USN-2944-1: Libav vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2944-1 4th April, 2016 libav vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Libav could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file. Software description libav – Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder Details It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed mediafiles. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted media file, anattacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possiblyexecute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking theprogram. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libavformat53 4:0.8.17-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 libavcodec53 4:0.8.17-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make [ more… ]