USN-3988-1: MediaInfoLib vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM

Packages

• libmediainfo - library reading metadata from media files

Details

It was discovered that MediaInfoLib contained multiple security issues when
handling certain multimedia files. If a user were tricked into opening a
crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause MediaInfoLib 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

• libmediainfo0v5 - 17.12-1ubuntu0.1

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

References

• CVE-2019-11372
• CVE-2019-11373

Related notices

• USN-4859-1: libmediainfo, libmediainfo0v5, libmediainfo0, python-mediainfodll, libmediainfo-dev, python3-mediainfodll, libmediainfo-doc