Executive Summary

Summary
Title MediaInfo vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3988-1 First vendor Publication 2019-05-16
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-05-16
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.10 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary:

MediaInfo could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - libmediainfo: library reading metadata from media files

Details:

It was discovered that MediaInfo contained multiple security issues when handling certain multimedia files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause MediaInfo to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 19.04:
libmediainfo0v5 18.12-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.10:
libmediainfo0v5 18.03.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
libmediainfo0v5 17.12-1ubuntu0.1

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3988-1
CVE-2019-11372, CVE-2019-11373

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmediainfo/18.12-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmediainfo/18.03.1-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmediainfo/17.12-1ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3988-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 3

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Date Informations
2019-05-17 00:18:42
  • First insertion