Debian Gets FFmpeg Security Updates

The FFmpeg pacakge, a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video, has just received a number of security updates in the Debian distro.

According to the Debian developers, several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FFmpeg package, fixing multiple input validations in the decoders for QDM2, VP5, VP6, VMD and SVQ1 files, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The pacakge has been updated in Debian Squeeze, FFmpeg version 0.5.6-3 (stable) and Debian Sid, FFmpeg version 0.7.3-1 (unstable). Users have been urged to update their systems to the latest FFmpeg packages.

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created.

Alternatively, you can download Ffmpeg 0.9 right now from Softpedia.