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How to remediate vulnerabilities related to FFmpeg for a BlueXP Connector

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Applies to

  • BlueXP
  • Ubuntu

Description

  • Vulnerability scanners will flag for CVE ID that are associated with FFmpeg related vulnerabilities, when the particular FFmpeg package is installed in the BlueXP Connector VM.
  • Some of the common CVE IDs for FFmpeg are CVE-2022-3109, CVE-2022-3341, CVE-2020-22038, CVE-2023-49501.
  • FFmpeg is  a command-line tool that records, transcodes, mixes, formats and streams multimedia content. The cross-platform framework is a open-source and shares audio and video libraries with users.

Procedure

To remediate the vulnerabilities associated with FFmpeg that are detected on BlueXP Connector VM, it is required to uninstall the FFmpeg package since BlueXP does not require the same:
 
# sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg
 

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