Uncontrolled Recursion in gst-plugins-bad1 - CVE-2017-5839
Published: February 9, 2017 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32105
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: CVE-2017-5839
CWE-ID: CWE-674
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.3 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and crash) via vectors involving nested WAVEFORMATEX.
Affected software
gst-plugins-bad1
Arch Linux
Fedora
gst-plugins-base1 (Alpine package)
mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base
Arch Linux
Fedora
gst-plugins-base1 (Alpine package)
mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base
How to mitigate CVE-2017-5839
Install update from vendor's website.
gst-plugins-base1 (Alpine package) - update to 1.8.3-r0
mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base - addressed in versions 1.10.3-1.fc25, 1.11.1-1.fc25
mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base - addressed in versions 1.10.3-1.fc25, 1.11.1-1.fc25
External References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3819
- 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=777265
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.3
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10