gst-plugins-good0.10, gst-plugins-good1.0 vulnerabilities

27 March 2017

gst-plugins-good0.10, gst-plugins-good1.0 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 Good Plugins could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description

• gst-plugins-good1.0 - GStreamer plugins
• gst-plugins-good0.10 - GStreamer plugins

Details

Hanno Böck discovered that GStreamer Good 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-good - 1.8.3-1ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

gstreamer1.0-plugins-good - 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.4

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5.3

gstreamer1.0-plugins-good - 1.2.4-1~ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.31-1ubuntu1.5

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-2016-10198
• CVE-2016-10199
• CVE-2017-5840
• CVE-2017-5841
• CVE-2017-5845