CVE-2016-9635

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-9635  

Multiple flaws were discovered in GStreamer's FLC/FLI/FLX media file format decoding plug-in. A remote attacker could use these flaws to cause an application using GStreamer to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

Multiple flaws were discovered in GStreamer's FLC/FLI/FLX media file format decoding plug-in. A remote attacker could use these flaws 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-2016-9635 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

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

CVSS v3 metrics

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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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (gstreamer1-plugins-good) RHSA-2017:0020 2017-01-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (gstreamer-plugins-good) RHSA-2016:2975 2016-12-21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (gstreamer-plugins-good) RHSA-2017:0019 2017-01-05

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 gstreamer-plugins-good Will not fix
RHEV Manager 3 mingw-virt-viewer Will not fix

Mitigation

This mitigation is only required if vulnerable gstreamer-plugins-good and/or gstreamer1-plugins-good packages are installed.

For RHEL 7,

sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-1.0/libgstflxdec.so
sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-0.10/libgstflxdec.so

For RHEL 5 and RHEL 6,

sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-0.10/libgstflxdec.so

Please note that this mitigation deletes the vulnerable FLI/FLC/FLX animation demuxer file(s), which removes the functionality to play FLI/FLC/FLX animation files.

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