Improper Initialization Affecting gstreamer package, versions [,1.11.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.6% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GSTREAMER-2384086
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-9446  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-665  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gstreamer to version 1.11.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Initialization. The vmnc decoder in the gstreamer does not initialize the render canvas, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by thumbnailing a simple 1 frame vmnc movie that does not draw to the allocated render canvas.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1