USN-789-1: GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerability
22 June 2009
gst-plugins-good0.10 vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 9.04
- Ubuntu 8.10
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Software Description
- gst-plugins-good0.10
Details
Tielei Wang discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle malformed PNG image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted PNG image file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 9.04
- gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.14-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 8.10
- gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.10.4-1ubuntu1.2
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
- gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.7-3ubuntu0.3
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.3-0ubuntu4.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.