Out-of-bounds Read Affecting gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs package, versions <0:0.10.23-23.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.79% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-GSTREAMERPLUGINSBADFREEDEVELDOCS-2087646
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed15 Jan 2016

Introduced: 15 Jan 2016

CVE-2017-5838  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs to version 0:0.10.23-23.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs package and not the gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The gst_date_time_new_from_iso8601_string function in gst/gstdatetime.c in GStreamer before 1.10.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via a malformed datetime string.