Description
A flaw was found in the GStreamer multimedia framework's ASF muxer plugin (asfmux). When writing string metadata tags containing Unicode characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (such as emoji) to an ASF container, the plugin incorrectly calculates the buffer size needed for the UTF-16LE representation. The size calculation assumes each Unicode code point requires 2 bytes, but non-BMP characters require 4 bytes (surrogate pairs). This leads to a heap out-of-bounds write when the actual UTF-16LE conversion is written into the undersized buffer. An attacker could exploit this by providing media with crafted metadata tags to an application that transcodes or remuxes to ASF format while preserving metadata, potentially causing a denial of service or limited memory corruption.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | — | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | — | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | — | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | — | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | No fix yet | — |
| Debian 13 | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | No fix yet | — |
| Debian 12 | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | No fix yet | — |
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | No fix yet | — |
Advisories 1
- WID-SEC-2026-3958 GStreamer: Mehrere Schwachstellen BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Oct 14, 2026
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-100231 vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2541468 issue-tracking