Buffer overflow in gst-plugins-bad1 - CVE-2016-9636

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Buffer overflow in gst-plugins-bad1 - CVE-2016-9636

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32113
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9636
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

Heap-based buffer overflow in the flx_decode_delta_fli function in gst/flx/gstflxdec.c in the FLIC decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by providing a 'write count' that goes beyond the initialized buffer.


Affected software

gst-plugins-bad1
gst-plugins-good1 (Alpine package)
gst-plugins-good (Alpine package)
gstreamer-plugins-good
gstreamer1-plugins-good
Fedora

How to mitigate CVE-2016-9636

Install update from vendor's website.

gst-plugins-good1 (Alpine package) - update to 1.8.3-r0
gstreamer-plugins-good - addressed in versions 0.10.31-17.fc24, 0.10.31-17.fc25
gstreamer1-plugins-good - addressed in versions 1.8.3-2.fc24, 1.10.1-2.fc25

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