Ubuntu Received FFmpeg Security Updates

The FFmpeg package, a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video, has just been updated in Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .

A few security issues with FFmpeg that affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 10.10 were dealt with by various developers. More specifically, FFmpeg could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

The problems are detailed in the Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1320-1.  FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed Matroska and VMD files, and QDM2, VP3, VP5, VP6, and SVQ1 streams. This problem can be corrected by updating the necessary packages with a standard system update.

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 0.9.1 right now from Softpedia.