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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4119-1 libav -- security update

Date Reported:

19 Feb 2018

Affected Packages:

libav

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-16803.

More information:

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 https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=Changelog;hb=refs/tags/v11.12

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 6:11.12-1~deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libav packages.

For the detailed security status of libav please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libav