USN-3135-1: GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• gst-plugins-good0.10 - GStreamer plugins
• gst-plugins-good1.0 - GStreamer plugins

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10

• gstreamer1.0-plugins-good - 1.8.3-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• gstreamer1.0-plugins-good - 1.8.2-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5.1
• gstreamer1.0-plugins-good - 1.2.4-1~ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.31-1ubuntu1.3

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

References

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1643901