Out-of-bounds read in gst-plugins-bad1 - CVE-2016-9812

Vulnerability identifier: #VU32109

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-2016-9812

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The gst_mpegts_section_new function in the mpegts decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a too small section.

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

Install update from vendor's website.

gst-plugins-bad1 (Alpine package) - update to 1.8.3-r0
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

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0021.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3818
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/01/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95160
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775048
• https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.2
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10

• Out-of-bounds read in GStreamer gst-plugins-bad1
• Out-of-bounds read in gst-plugins-bad1 (Alpine package)
• Fedora 25 update for gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
• Fedora 24 update for gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
• Fedora 24 update for gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 update for gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free