Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting gstreamer-plugins-good package, versions <0:0.10.31-13.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.74% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-GSTREAMERPLUGINSGOOD-2518701
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed9 Feb 2017

Introduced: 9 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-5839  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 gstreamer-plugins-good to version 0:0.10.31-13.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2017-2060.

NVD Description

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

The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.3 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and crash) via vectors involving nested WAVEFORMATEX.