Synopsis
Moderate: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Topic
An update for gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free package contains a collection of plug-ins for GStreamer.
Security Fix(es):
- An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in GStreamer's VMware VMnc video file format decoding plug-in. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using GStreamer to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2016-9445)
- Multiple flaws were discovered in GStreamer's H.264 and MPEG-TS plug-ins. A remote attacker could use these flaws to cause an application using GStreamer to crash. (CVE-2016-9809, CVE-2016-9812, CVE-2016-9813)
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
Affected Products
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1395767 - CVE-2016-9445 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Integer overflow when allocating render buffer in VMnc decoder
- BZ - 1401880 - CVE-2016-9809 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Off-by-one read in gst_h464_parse_set_caps
- BZ - 1401930 - CVE-2016-9812 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: Out-of-bounds read in gst_mpegts_section_new
- BZ - 1401934 - CVE-2016-9813 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: NULL pointer dereference in mpegts parser
CVEs
References