Summary
Antonio Morales discovered that GStreamer incorrectly handled allocating
memory for certain buffers. An attacker could use this issue to cause
GStreamer to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.
Fixed packages 3
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS | gstreamer1.0 | 1.16.3-0ubuntu1.2 |
| Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS | gstreamer1.0 | 1.20.3-0ubuntu1.1 |
| Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS | gstreamer1.0 | 1.24.2-1ubuntu0.1 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.6
GHSL-2024-166: GStreamer Integer overflows in MP4/MOV demuxer and memory allocator that can lead to out-of-bounds writes
GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. An integer underflow has been detected in the function qtdemux_parse_theora_extension within qtdemux.c. The vulnerability occurs due to an underflow of the gint size variable, which …
References
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-47606