Use-after-free in gst-plugins-bad1 - CVE-2017-5843

Vulnerability identifier: #VU32111

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-2017-5843

CWE-ID: CWE-416

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.

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the (1) gst_mini_object_unref, (2) gst_tag_list_unref, and (3) gst_mxf_demux_update_essence_tracks functions in GStreamer before 1.10.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving stream tags, as demonstrated by 02785736.mxf.

gst-plugins-bad1
Arch Linux
Fedora
gst-plugins-bad1 (Alpine package)
mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
gst-editing-services
gstreamer1
gstreamer1-plugin-mpg123
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
gstreamer1-plugins-base
gstreamer1-plugins-good
gstreamer1-rtsp-server
gstreamer1-vaapi
python-gstreamer1

Install update from vendor's website.

gst-plugins-bad1 (Alpine package) - update to 1.8.3-r0
mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free - addressed in versions 1.10.3-1.fc25, 1.11.1-1.fc25
gst-editing-services - update to 1.12.0-1.fc26
gstreamer1 - update to 1.12.0-1.fc26
gstreamer1-plugin-mpg123 - update to 1.12.0-1.fc26
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free - update to 1.12.0-1.fc26
gstreamer1-plugins-base - update to 1.12.0-1.fc26
gstreamer1-plugins-good - update to 1.12.0-1.fc26
gstreamer1-rtsp-server - update to 1.12.0-1.fc26
gstreamer1-vaapi - update to 1.12.0-1.fc26
python-gstreamer1 - update to 1.12.0-1.fc26

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3818
• 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=777503
• https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.3
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00038.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10

• Use-after-free in GStreamer gst-plugins-bad1
• Use-after-free in gst-plugins-bad1 (Alpine package)
• Arch Linux update for gst-plugins-bad
• Fedora 25 update for mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
• Fedora 25 update for mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
• Fedora 26 update for gst-editing-services, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugin-mpg123, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, gstreamer1-rtsp-server, gstreamer1-vaapi, python-gstreamer1