USN-3244-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

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

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

Ubuntu 14.04

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-base - 0.10.36-1.1ubuntu2.1
• gstreamer1.0-plugins-base - 1.2.4-1~ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 12.04

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

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