NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting gst-plugins-base1.0 package, versions <1.16.3-0ubuntu1.4


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-GSTPLUGINSBASE10-8500268
  • published19 Dec 2024
  • disclosed12 Dec 2024

Introduced: 12 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-47835  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 gst-plugins-base1.0 to version 1.16.3-0ubuntu1.4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gst-plugins-base1.0 package and not the gst-plugins-base1.0 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. A null pointer dereference vulnerability has been detected in the parse_lrc function within gstsubparse.c. The parse_lrc function calls strchr() to find the character ']' in the string line. The pointer returned by this call is then passed to g_strdup(). However, if the string line does not contain the character ']', strchr() returns NULL, and a call to g_strdup(start + 1) leads to a null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.10.

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