On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 03:43:37PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 03:07:57PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > On 2015-05-15 15:22:28, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:05:17AM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > > > Version: 6:11.3-1
> > > > 
> > > > On 2015-05-14 20:41:15, Arne Wichmann wrote:
> > > > > Package: libavcodec56
> > > > > Version: 6:11.3-2
> > > > > Severity: grave
> > > > > Tags: security
> > > > > Justification: user security hole
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi, as far as I can see this has not yet been reported or fixed:
> > > > > 
> > > > > CVE-2014-7937 : Multiple off-by-one errors in libavcodec/vorbisdec.c 
> > > > > in
> > > > > FFmpeg before 2.4.2, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, 
> > > > > allow
> > > > > remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or 
> > > > > possibly
> > > > > have unspecified other impact via crafted Vorbis I data [1]
> > > > > 
> > > > > I marked this as grave as the impact is unclear and might include 
> > > > > arbitrary
> > > > > code execution. Feel free do downgrade if this can be ruled out.
> > > > > 
> > > > > (Actually I would like to have a look at the test case to check a bit 
> > > > > more
> > > > > thoroughly, but AFAICS I would need to talk to google for this.)
> > > > > 
> > > > > [1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7937
> > > > >   
> > > > > https://lists.libav.org/pipermail/libav-devel/2015-January/066433.html
> > > > 
> > > > A similar commit to the one maintained in this mailing list post was 
> > > > applied to
> > > > 11.3. So closing with that version.
> > > 
> > > Do you mean the patch at [0]? Honestly it doesn't look like the ffmpeg 
> > > patch at
> > > all, and the commit message doesn't even mention the bug fix. How can you 
> > > be so
> > > sure that the bug is fixed?
> > 
> > I might have read the commit wrong. Do you have a sample for this CVE?
> 
> Unfortunately the reproducer isn't public. I contacted ffmpeg-security about
> it, I'll keep you posted.

I got the reproducer from ffmpeg and it seems that libav in sid isn't affected
like Sebastian said. So yeah, this bug should stay closed. I don't know if the
patch linked above is what fixed the issue though.

Cheers

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