Improper access control in gstreamer - CVE-2024-44331
Published: October 31, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU99528
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-44331
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper access restrictions within the RTSP server library in gst-rtsp-server/rtsp-media.c. A remote attacker can send specially crafted request to the server and perform a denial of service attack.
Note, successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that the application is compiled with assertions enabled.
Affected software
gstreamer
Gentoo Linux
media-libs/gst-plugins-base
media-libs/gstreamer
Gentoo Linux
media-libs/gst-plugins-base
media-libs/gstreamer
How to mitigate CVE-2024-44331
Install updates from vendor's website.
gstreamer - update to 1.24.9
media-libs/gst-plugins-base - update to 1.24.10
media-libs/gstreamer - update to 1.24.10
media-libs/gst-plugins-base - update to 1.24.10
media-libs/gstreamer - update to 1.24.10