NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting gstreamer package, versions [,1.10.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.92% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GSTREAMER-3008083
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-9813  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gstreamer to version 1.10.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. The _parse_pat function in the mpegts parser in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1