1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3958-1

USN-3958-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerability

Publication date

29 April 2019

Overview

GStreamer Base Plugins could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins did not correctly handle
certain malformed RTSP streams. If a user were tricked into opening a
crafted RTSP stream with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a
denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.

It was discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins did not correctly handle
certain malformed RTSP streams. If a user were tricked into opening a
crafted RTSP stream with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a
denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.

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
18.10 cosmic gstreamer1.0-plugins-base –  1.14.4-1ubuntu1.1
18.04 bionic gstreamer1.0-plugins-base –  1.14.1-1ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.2
16.04 xenial gstreamer0.10-plugins-base –  0.10.36-2ubuntu0.2
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base –  1.8.3-1ubuntu0.3

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