SB2017020930 - Denial of service in GStreamer
Published: February 9, 2017 Updated: August 21, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017020930
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5838)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the gst_date_time_new_from_iso8601_string() function in gst/gstdatetime.c. A remote attacker can pass a malformed datetime string to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3822
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96001
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2060
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777263
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.3
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10