Use After Free Affecting gstreamer package, versions [0.10.0,1.18.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GSTREAMER-2384076
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Apr 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-3497  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gstreamer to version 1.18.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. GStreamer before 1.18.4 might access already-freed memory in error code paths when demuxing certain malformed Matroska files.

CVSS Base Scores

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