Use After Free Affecting gstreamer package, versions [,1.10.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.99% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GSTREAMER-2384075
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Feb 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade gstreamer to version 1.10.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. 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.

CVSS Scores

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