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Fedora: 2016-a3bc78de2b Moderate: GStreamer Memory Corruption Issue

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Caution advised for Fedora 24 regarding gstreamer-plugins-bad-free over critical memory vulnerability, raising risk of exploitation.
vmncdec: Sanity-check width/height before using it ---- Remove insecure nsf plugin (#1395126)

Summary

GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of elements which

operate on media data.

This package contains plug-ins that aren't tested

well enough, or the code is not of good enough quality.

Update Information:

vmncdec: Sanity-check width/height before using it ---- Remove insecure nsf plugin (#1395126)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora memory corruption gstreamer plugin issue

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1395126 - CVE-2016-9447 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Memory corruption flaw in NSF decoder https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395126

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade gstreamer-plugins-bad-free' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 0.10.23
Release: 34.fc24
URL: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
Summary: GStreamer streaming media framework "bad" plug-ins

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora memory corruption gstreamer plugin issue

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