Secure testing team - Sep 2008 - Bug#498764: ffmpeg-debian: vulnerable to denial-of-service attack (CVE-2008-3230)

Package: ffmpeg-debian
Version: 0.svn20080206-12
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

according to the debian security tracker [1], ffmpeg is known to be
vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack [2].  the description of the
CVE is

  The ffmpeg lavf demuxer allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial 
  of service (application crash) via a crafted GIF file, possibly related 
  to gstreamer, as demonstrated by lol-giftopnm.gif.

i''m reporting this here to make you aware of the issue, and so the
issue
can be tracked as release-critical for etch.  this affects stable, testing, 
and unstable.

thanks for the hard work.

[1] http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-3230
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3230

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, ''unstable''), (500,
''testing''), (500, ''stable''), (1,
''experimental'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash