Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting gstreamer-plugins-bad-free package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GSTREAMERPLUGINSBADFREE-6128947
  • published15 Dec 2023
  • disclosed20 Sept 2022

Introduced: 20 Sep 2022

CVE-2023-40474  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free.

NVD Description

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

GStreamer MXF File Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of GStreamer. Interaction with this library is required to exploit this vulnerability but attack vectors may vary depending on the implementation.

The specific flaw exists within the parsing of MXF video files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in an integer overflow before allocating a buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. . Was ZDI-CAN-21660.

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