Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU147417

Resource exhaustion in gst-plugins-good and gstreamer - #VU147417

Published: September 8, 2026

Vulnerability identifier: #VU147417

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: N/A

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled resource consumption in the RTP session management component when processing incoming RTP packets. A remote attacker can send valid RTP packets containing new source identifiers to exhaust available memory.

The RTP protocol permits up to 15 contributing source identifiers per packet.

Affected software

gst-plugins-good
gstreamer

Remediation

Install security update from vendor's website.

gst-plugins-good - update to 1.28.6
gstreamer - update to 1.28.6

External References

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