1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3135-1

USN-3135-1: GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerability

Publication date

22 November 2016

Overview

GStreamer could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases

Packages

Details

Chris Evans discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle
malformed FLC movie files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted
FLC movie file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a
denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking the program.

Chris Evans discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle
malformed FLC movie files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted
FLC movie file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a
denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking the program.

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-good –  1.8.3-1ubuntu1.1
16.04 xenial gstreamer1.0-plugins-good –  1.8.2-1ubuntu0.2
14.04 trusty gstreamer0.10-plugins-good –  0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5.1
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good –  1.2.4-1~ubuntu1.1
12.04 precise gstreamer0.10-plugins-good –  0.10.31-1ubuntu1.3

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