MGASA-2019-0029

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    MGASA-2019-0029

    Published: 10 Jan 2019Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated live, ffmpeg, mplayer, and vlc packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: A bug in the server implementation of RTSP-over-HTTP in live could allow a denial-of-service attack. A bug in the server implementation of RTSP-over-HTTP could allow a buffer overflow, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code when parsing a malformed RTSP stream (CVE-2018-4013). The flv_write_packet function in libavformat/flvenc.c in FFmpeg through 3.3.8 does not check for an empty audio packet, leading to an assertion failure (CVE-2018-15822). The live package has been updated to version 2018.11.26, the ffmpeg package has been updated to version 3.3.9, and the vlc package has been updated to version 3.0.5, fixing these issues and other bugs. The mplayer package has been rebuilt against the update live package to fix the RTSP-over-HTTP issues in mplayer.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0029.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24071, http://live555.com/liveMedia/public/changelog.txt, https://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4343

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: live

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/live?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2018.11.26-1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
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    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High