Integer overflow in gstreamer - CVE-2016-9445
Published: January 23, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU39794
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9445
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GStreamer
Affected software:
gstreamer
gstreamer
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Integer overflow in the vmnc decoder in the gstreamer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large width and height values, which triggers a buffer overflow.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-9445
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2974.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0018.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0021.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/12
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/13
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94421
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774533
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/gst/vmnc/vmncdec.c?id=4cb1bcf1422bbcd79c0f683edb7ee85e3f7a31fe
- https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10