Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201702-6

Severity: Low
Date : 2017-02-03
CVE-ID : CVE-2017-5846 CVE-2017-5847
Package : gst-plugins-ugly
Type : denial of service
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-166

Summary

The package gst-plugins-ugly before version 1.10.3-1 is vulnerable to
denial of service.

Resolution

Upgrade to 1.10.3-1.

pacman -Syu “gst-plugins-ugly>=1.10.3-1”

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 1.10.3.

Workaround

None.

Description

• CVE-2017-5846 (denial of service)

An out-of-bounds read has been found in gstreamer before 1.10.3, in
gst_asf_demux_process_ext_stream_props.

• CVE-2017-5847 (denial of service)

An out-of-bounds read has been found in gstreamer before 1.10.3, in
gst_asf_demux_process_ext_content_desc.

Impact

A remote attacker can crash gstreamer via a crafted file.

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/284
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777937
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777955
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-5846
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-5847