Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad package, versions [,1.10.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.69% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GSTREAMERGSTPLUGINSBAD-14894368
  • published8 Jan 2026
  • disclosed23 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-9445  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad to version 1.10.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Integer overflow in the vmnc decoder in the gstreamer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large width and height values, which triggers a buffer overflow.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1