1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3244-1

USN-3244-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerabilities

Publication date

27 March 2017

Overview

GStreamer Base Plugins could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases

Packages

Details

Hanno Böck discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins did not correctly handle
certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into opening a
crafted media file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a
denial of service via application crash.

Hanno Böck discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins did not correctly handle
certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into opening a
crafted media file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a
denial of service via application crash.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.10 yakkety gstreamer1.0-plugins-base –  1.8.3-1ubuntu1.1
16.04 xenial gstreamer1.0-plugins-base –  1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2
14.04 trusty gstreamer0.10-plugins-base –  0.10.36-1.1ubuntu2.1
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base –  1.2.4-1~ubuntu2.1
12.04 precise gstreamer0.10-plugins-base –  0.10.36-1ubuntu0.2

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