Out-of-bounds read in gst-plugins-bad1 - CVE-2016-10198

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Out-of-bounds read in gst-plugins-bad1 - CVE-2016-10198

Published: February 9, 2017 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32115
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10198
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 perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The gst_aac_parse_sink_setcaps function in gst/audioparsers/gstaacparse.c in gst-plugins-good in GStreamer before 1.10.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and crash) via a crafted audio file.


Affected software

gst-plugins-bad1
Arch Linux
openEuler
gst-plugins-good1 (Alpine package)
gst-plugins-good (Alpine package)
gstreamer-plugins-good
gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo
gstreamer-plugins-good-debugsource

How to mitigate CVE-2016-10198

Install update from vendor's website.

gst-plugins-good1 (Alpine package) - update to 1.8.3-r0
gstreamer-plugins-good - update to 0.10.31-24
gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo - update to 0.10.31-24
gstreamer-plugins-good-debugsource - update to 0.10.31-24

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