Mageia 2019-0223: mythtv security update
Summary
This update provides and update to mythtv 30, and updates the bundled
ffmpeg to 3.2. It also fixes atleast the following issue:
The flv_write_packet function in libavformat/flvenc.c in FFmpeg through
4.0.2 does not check for an empty audio packet, leading to an assertion
failure (CVE-2018-15822).
It also fixes mythbackend missing needed environment variables (mga#24104).
For other changes/fixes in this update, see the referenced Release Notes.
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24099
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24104
- https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_29
- https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_30
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-15822
Resolution
MGASA-2019-0223 - Updated mythtv packages fix security issues
SRPMS
- 6/core/mythtv-30.0-20190121.1.mga6
- 6/core/mythtv-mythweb-30.0-1.mga6
- 6/core/hdhomerun-20180817-1.mga6
- 6/tainted/mythtv-30.0-20190121.1.mga6.tainted