GLSA 202006-17: FAAD2: Multiple vulnerabilities
Severity: | normal |
Title: | FAAD2: Multiple vulnerabilities |
Date: | 06/15/2020 |
Bugs: |
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ID: | 202006-17 |
Synopsis
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FAAD2, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.Background
FAAD2 is an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC decoder.
Affected packages
Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
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media-libs/faad2 | < 2.9.0 | >= 2.9.0 | All supported architectures |
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FAAD2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Impact
Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All FAAD2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/faad2-2.9.0"
References
CVE-2019-6956 CVE-2019-15296 CVE-2018-20362 CVE-2018-20361 CVE-2018-20360 CVE-2018-20359 CVE-2018-20358 CVE-2018-20357 CVE-2018-20199 CVE-2018-20198 CVE-2018-20197 CVE-2018-20196 CVE-2018-20195 CVE-2018-20194 CVE-2018-19504 CVE-2018-19503 CVE-2018-19502
Availability
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Concerns?
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License
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