USN-3926-1: GPAC vulnerabilities

gpac vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

GPAC could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description

• gpac - GPAC Project on Advanced Content

Details

It was discovered that the GPAC MP4Box utility incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If an user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted MP4 file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause MP4Box to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.10

gpac - 0.5.2-426-gc5ad4e4+dfsg5-4ubuntu0.1

gpac-modules-base - 0.5.2-426-gc5ad4e4+dfsg5-4ubuntu0.1

libgpac4 - 0.5.2-426-gc5ad4e4+dfsg5-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

gpac - 0.5.2-426-gc5ad4e4+dfsg5-3ubuntu0.1

gpac-modules-base - 0.5.2-426-gc5ad4e4+dfsg5-3ubuntu0.1

libgpac4 - 0.5.2-426-gc5ad4e4+dfsg5-3ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

gpac - 0.5.2-426-gc5ad4e4+dfsg5-1ubuntu0.1

gpac-modules-base - 0.5.2-426-gc5ad4e4+dfsg5-1ubuntu0.1

libgpac4 - 0.5.2-426-gc5ad4e4+dfsg5-1ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2018-1000100
• CVE-2018-13005
• CVE-2018-13006
• CVE-2018-20760
• CVE-2018-20761
• CVE-2018-20762
• CVE-2018-20763
• CVE-2018-7752

from Ubuntu Security Notices https://ift.tt/2WzbQCV