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Fedora 25: 2017-c0564718ea Moderate Mingw-Gstreamer1 Out-Of-Bounds

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Calendar Grey February 20, 2017
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Critical update for mingw-gstreamer1 (CVE-2017-5838) reverts to stable version 1.10.3 in Fedora 25.
Security fix for CVE-2017-5838

Summary

GStreamer is a streaming-media framework, based on graphs of filterswhich operate on media data. Applications using this library can do

anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just

about anything else media-related. Its plug-in-based architecture

means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added by

installing new plug-ins.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2017-5838. Downgrade to 1.10.3 as it is the latest stable release

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora out-of-bounds mingw-gstreamer1

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1419587 - CVE-2017-5838 gstreamer: Out-of-bounds read in gst_date_time_new_from_iso8601_string() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1419587

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-gstreamer1' 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
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.10.3
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
Summary: MinGW Windows Streaming-Media Framework Runtime

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora out-of-bounds mingw-gstreamer1

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