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High USN-7558-1 3 CVEs

gst-plugins-bad1.0 vulnerabilities

Published Jun 5, 2025 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that the AV1 codec plugin in GStreamer could be made
to write out of bounds. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause applications using the plugin to crash, resulting in a denial of
service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-50186, CVE-2024-0444)

It was discovered that the H265 codec plugin in GStreamer could be made
to write out of bounds. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause applications using the plugin to crash, resulting in a denial of
service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-3887)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS gst-plugins-bad1.0 1.16.3-0ubuntu1.1+esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 22.04 LTS Pro:22.04:LTS gst-plugins-bad1.0 1.20.3-0ubuntu1.1+esm2
Ubuntu · Pro 24.04 LTS Pro:24.04:LTS gst-plugins-bad1.0 1.24.2-1ubuntu4+esm1

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 8.8

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

    GStreamer H265 Codec 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 thi…

  • High 7.5

    GStreamer AV1 Video Parsing Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    GStreamer AV1 Video 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…

  • High 7.5

    GStreamer AV1 Video Parsing Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    GStreamer AV1 Video 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…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-50186
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-0444
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-3887