A memory corruption flaw was found in GStreamer's Nintendo NSF music 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.
Find out more about CVE-2016-9447 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 6.8 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | High |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (gstreamer-plugins-bad-free) | RHSA-2017:0018 | 2017-01-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (gstreamer-plugins-bad-free) | RHSA-2016:2974 | 2016-12-21 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | gstreamer | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | gstreamer1 | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | gstreamer | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | gstreamer | Not affected |
| RHEV Manager 3 | mingw-virt-viewer | Will not fix |
sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-0.10/libgstnsf.so
Please note that this mitigation deletes the vulnerable NSF codec file, which removes the functionality to play Nintendo NSF music files.
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