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UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5843

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the (1) gst_mini_object_unref, (2) gst_tag_list_unref, and (3) gst_mxf_demux_update_essence_tracks function...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the (1) gst_mini_object_unref, (2) gst_tag_list_unref, and (3) gst_mxf_demux_update_essence_tracks functions in GStreamer before 1.10.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving stream tags, as demonstrated by 02785736.mxf.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS gst-plugins-bad0.10

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.10.23-7.2ubuntu1.3+esm1"}]}]

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS gst-plugins-bad1.0

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS gst-plugins-bad1.0

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

References

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