ubuntu · CVE-2017-9993

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-06-28 06:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 12:02:40 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-9993 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (ffmpeg, libav), 36 status rows across 18 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 17, not-affected 13, ignored 2, released 2, needed 1, needs-triage 1.

Description:

FFmpeg before 2.8.12, 3.0.x and 3.1.x before 3.1.9, 3.2.x before 3.2.6, and 3.3.x before 3.3.2 does not properly restrict HTTP Live Streaming filename extensions and demuxer names, which allows attackers to read arbitrary files via crafted playlist data.

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