Debian Security Advisory DSA 2947-1 (libav - security update)

Several security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and decoders of the libav multimedia library. A full list of the changes is available at http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=Changelog;hb=refs/tags/v0.8.12 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2947.nasl 8972 2018-02-28 07:02:10...

CVE-2012-6618

The connected documents confirm a concrete vulnerability: in FFmpeg, the av_probe_input_buffer function in libavformat/utils.c (FFmpeg before 1.0.2)is exploitable via a crafted MP3 file when using certain -probesize values, causing a remote denial of service (crash). This is the underlying root c...