gst-plugins-good0.10 vulnerabilities

16 March 2009

gst-plugins-good0.10 vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 7.10

Software Description

• gst-plugins-good0.10

Details

It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle malformed Composition Time To Sample (ctts) atom data in Quicktime (mov) movie files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted mov file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-0386)

It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle malformed Sync Sample (aka stss) atom data in Quicktime (mov) movie files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted mov file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-0387)

It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle malformed Time-to-sample (aka stts) atom data in Quicktime (mov) movie files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted mov file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-0397)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.10

gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.10.4-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.7-3ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 7.10

gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.6-0ubuntu4.2

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

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-0386
• CVE-2009-0387
• CVE-2009-0397