Out-of-bounds Write Affecting gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-docs package, versions <0:0.10.31-12.el7_3


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.77% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GSTREAMERPLUGINSGOODDEVELDOCS-1457724
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Nov 2016

Introduced: 21 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-9808  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-docs to version 0:0.10.31-12.el7_3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:0019.

NVD Description

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

The FLIC decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) via a crafted series of skip and count pairs.