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Fedora 25: 2017-216f4b9f9d Critical: mingw-gstreamer Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey February 20, 2017
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Essential updates for mingw-gstreamer plugins in Fedora 25 to resolve invalid memory access and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Security fix for CVE-2017-5848, CVE-2017-5843 - Downgrade to 1.10.3 as it is the latest stable release

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:

Security fix for CVE-2017-5848, CVE-2017-5843 - Downgrade to 1.10.3 as it is the latest stable release

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security advisory Fedora memory issue streaming issue mingw-gstreamer

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1419583 - CVE-2017-5848 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Invalid memory read in gst_ps_demux_parse_psm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1419583 [ 2 ] Bug #1419592 - CVE-2017-5843 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Use after free in gst_mini_object_unref / gst_tag_list_unref / gst_mxf_demux_update_essence_tracks https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1419592

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-gstreamer1-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: mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.10.3
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
Summary: Cross compiled GStreamer1 plug-ins "bad"

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