Important: gstreamer-plugins-good security update

Synopsis

Important: gstreamer-plugins-good security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for gstreamer-plugins-good is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 gstreamer-plugins-good packages contain a collection of well-supported plug-ins of good quality and under the LGPL license.

Security Fix(es):

• 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. (CVE-2016-9634, CVE-2016-9635, CVE-2016-9636, CVE-2016-9808)
  
• An invalid memory read access flaw was found in GStreamer's FLC/FLI/FLX media file format decoding plug-in. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using GStreamer to crash. (CVE-2016-9807)
  

Note: This updates removes the vulnerable FLC/FLI/FLX plug-in.

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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1397441 - CVE-2016-9634 CVE-2016-9635 CVE-2016-9636 CVE-2016-9808 gstreamer-plugins-good: Heap buffer overflow in FLIC decoder
• BZ - 1401874 - CVE-2016-9807 gstreamer-plugins-good: Invalid memory read in flx_decode_chunks

CVEs

• CVE-2016-9634
• CVE-2016-9635
• CVE-2016-9636
• CVE-2016-9807
• CVE-2016-9808

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important