gst-plugins-base0.10, gst-plugins-base1.0 vulnerabilities

27 March 2017

gst-plugins-base0.10, gst-plugins-base1.0 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

GStreamer Base Plugins could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description

• gst-plugins-base1.0 - GStreamer Plugins
• gst-plugins-base0.10 - GStreamer Plugins

Details

Hanno Böck discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins did not correctly handle certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted media file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10

gstreamer1.0-plugins-base - 1.8.3-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

gstreamer1.0-plugins-base - 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

gstreamer0.10-plugins-base - 0.10.36-1.1ubuntu2.1

gstreamer1.0-plugins-base - 1.2.4-1~ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

gstreamer0.10-plugins-base - 0.10.36-1ubuntu0.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

• CVE-2016-9811
• CVE-2017-5837
• CVE-2017-5839
• CVE-2017-5842
• CVE-2017-5844