Use After Free Affecting gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs package, versions <0:0.10.23-23.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.99% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GSTREAMERPLUGINSBADFREEDEVELDOCS-4727088
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed19 Jan 2017

Introduced: 19 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-5843  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs to version 0:0.10.23-23.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:2060.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the (1) gst_mini_object_unref, (2) gst_tag_list_unref, and (3) gst_mxf_demux_update_essence_tracks functions in GStreamer before 1.10.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving stream tags, as demonstrated by 02785736.mxf.