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Debian Stretch DSA-3820-1 Moderate: GStreamer Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2017
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Address vulnerabilities in Debian associated with GStreamer plugins, reducing the potential for denial of service attacks via essential patches.
Hanno Boeck discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the GStreamer media framework and its codecs and demuxers, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary co...
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Summary

Hanno Boeck discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the GStreamer media
framework and its codecs and demuxers, which may result in denial of
service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed media file is
opened.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.4-2+deb8u3.

For the upcoming stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been
fixed in version 1.10.3-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.10.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gst-plugins-good1.0 packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



Package: gst-plugins-good1.0
CVE ID: CVE-2016-10198 CVE-2016-10199 CVE-2017-5840 CVE-2017-5841

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security advisory code execution Debian service denial GStreamer media framework

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