Out-of-bounds read in gst-plugins-bad1 - CVE-2016-9809

 

Out-of-bounds read in gst-plugins-bad1 - CVE-2016-9809

Published: January 13, 2017 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32108
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9809
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Off-by-one error in the gst_h264_parse_set_caps function in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted file, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.


Affected software

gst-plugins-bad1
gst-plugins-bad1 (Alpine package)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free (Red Hat package)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free (Red Hat package)
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Fedora

How to mitigate CVE-2016-9809

Install update from vendor's website.

gst-plugins-bad1 (Alpine package) - update to 1.8.3-r0
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free (Red Hat package) - update to 0.10.23-22.el7_3
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free - addressed in versions 0.10.23-34.fc24, 0.10.23-35.fc25
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free (Red Hat package) - update to 1.4.5-6.el7_3
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free - update to 1.8.3-3.fc24

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