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Old 07-28-2008
USN-630-1: ffmpeg vulnerability
Referenced CVEs:
CVE-2008-3162


Description:
=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-630-1 July 28, 2008 ffmpeg vulnerability CVE-2008-3162 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 7.10: libavformat1d 3:0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu4.1 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: libavformat1d 3:0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu7.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: It was discovered that ffmpeg did not correctly handle STR file demuxing. If a user were tricked into processing a malicious STR file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges via applications linked against ffmpeg.





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FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER(1)					      General Commands Manual					      FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER(1)

NAME

       ffmpegthumbnailer - fast and lightweight video thumbnailer

SYNOPSIS

       ffmpegthumbnailer [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Ffmpegthumbnailer  is  a  lightweight  video  thumbnailer  that can be used by file managers to create thumbnails for your video files. The
       thumbnailer uses ffmpeg to decode frames from the video files, so supported videoformats depend on the configuration flags of ffmpeg.

OPTIONS

       -i<s>  : input file

       -o<s>  : output file

       -s<n>  : thumbnail size (use 0 for original size) (default: 128)

       -q<n>  : image quality (0 = bad, 10 = best) (default: 8) (only for jpeg)

       -c<s>  : override image format (jpeg or png) (default: determined by filename)

       -t<n|s>
	      : time to seek to (percentage or absolute time hh:mm:ss) (default: 10%)

       -a     : ignore aspect ratio and generate square thumbnail

       -f     : create a movie strip overlay

       -h     : display this help

AUTHOR

       Written by Dirk Vanden Boer.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegthumbnailer/issues/list>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2008 Dirk Vanden Boer <dirk.vdb@gmail.com>
       This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the  terms  of  the  GNU  General  Public  License  (version  2	or  later)
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.	There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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