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Medium ALSA-2024:3060 3 CVEs

Moderate: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free security update

Published May 22, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Ecosystem: AlmaLinux

Summary

GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free package contains a collection of plug-ins for GStreamer.

Security Fix(es):

* gstreamer-plugins-bad: Integer overflow leading to heap overwrite in MXF file handling with uncompressed video (CVE-2023-40474)
* gstreamer-plugins-bad: Integer overflow leading to heap overwrite in MXF file handling with AES3 audio (CVE-2023-40475)
* gstreamer-plugins-bad: Integer overflow in H.265 video parser leading to stack overwrite (CVE-2023-40476)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free 1.16.1-4.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel 1.16.1-4.el8

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 8.8
    CVE-2023-40474

    GStreamer MXF File Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    GStreamer MXF File Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of GStreamer. Interaction with this library is required to exploit this vulnerabili…

    GStreamer GStreamer gst-plugins-bad1.0 gst-plugins-bad1.0 Debian Ubuntu Alpine
  • High 8.8
    CVE-2023-40475

    GStreamer MXF File Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    GStreamer MXF File Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of GStreamer. Interaction with this library is required to exploit this vulnerabili…

    GStreamer GStreamer gst-plugins-bad1.0 gst-plugins-bad1.0 Debian Ubuntu Alpine
  • High 8.8
    CVE-2023-40476

    GStreamer H265 Parsing Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    GStreamer H265 Parsing Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of GStreamer. Interaction with this library is required to exploit this vuln…

    GStreamer GStreamer gst-plugins-bad1.0 gst-plugins-bad1.0 Debian Ubuntu Alpine

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-40474
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-40475
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-40476
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2254587
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2254588
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2254589
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-3060.html