Out-of-bounds Read Affecting gstreamer package, versions [,1.10.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.79% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GSTREAMER-2384077
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-5838  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (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 Out-of-bounds Read. The gst_date_time_new_from_iso8601_string function in gst/gstdatetime.c in GStreamer before 1.10.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via a malformed datetime string.

CVSS Base Scores

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