Use After Free Affecting gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo package, versions <0:0.10.31-20.amzn2.0.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.22% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-GSTREAMERPLUGINSGOODDEBUGINFO-5411292
  • published5 Apr 2023
  • disclosed19 Apr 2021

Introduced: 19 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-3497  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo to version 0:0.10.31-20.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2023-2011.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo package and not the gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

GStreamer before 1.18.4 might access already-freed memory in error code paths when demuxing certain malformed Matroska files.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1