Out-of-bounds read in gst-plugins-bad1 - CVE-2017-5845

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Out-of-bounds read in gst-plugins-bad1 - CVE-2017-5845

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32117
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-2017-5845
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The gst_avi_demux_parse_ncdt function in gst/avi/gstavidemux.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 ncdt sub-tag that "goes behind" the surrounding tag.


Affected software

gst-plugins-bad1
Arch Linux
Fedora
gst-plugins-good1 (Alpine package)
gst-plugins-good (Alpine package)
mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-good

How to mitigate CVE-2017-5845

Install update from vendor's website.

gst-plugins-good1 (Alpine package) - update to 1.8.3-r0
mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-good - addressed in versions 1.10.3-1.fc25, 1.11.1-1.fc25

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