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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-100231 EUVD-2026-100953GHSA-qxfv-rjq3-mg7m

Gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: heap out-of-bounds write in asfmux due to incorrect utf-16 size calculation for non-bmp characters

Published Oct 14, 2026 · Updated Nov 5, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
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 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
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)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
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 —

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