NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools package, versions <0:1.10.4-2.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.54% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GSTREAMER1PLUGINSBASETOOLS-5284972
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed5 May 2018

Introduced: 5 May 2018

CVE-2018-10768  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools to version 0:1.10.4-2.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:3140.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools package and not the gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a NULL pointer dereference in the AnnotPath::getCoordsLength function in Annot.h in an Ubuntu package for Poppler 0.24.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack. Later Ubuntu packages such as for Poppler 0.41.0 are not affected.