MGASA-2021-0334 - Updated gstreamer1.0-plugins packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 10 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0334.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7, 8
CVE: CVE-2021-3522

GStreamer before 1.18.4 may perform an out-of-bounds read when handling certain
ID3v2 tags (CVE-2021-3522).

Overflows in AVC/HEVC NAL unit length calculations, which would lead to
allocating infinite amounts of small memory blocks until OOM and could
potentially also lead to memory corruptions.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28977
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/-/merge_requests/2103
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4903
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4902
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4959-1
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3522

SRPMS:
- 8/core/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-1.18.3-1.1.mga8
- 8/core/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-1.18.3-1.1.mga8
- 8/tainted/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-1.18.3-1.1.mga8.tainted
- 7/core/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-1.16.0-2.1.mga7
- 7/core/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-1.16.0-1.2.mga7
- 7/tainted/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-1.16.0-1.2.mga7.tainted

Mageia 2021-0334: gstreamer1.0-plugins security update

GStreamer before 1.18.4 may perform an out-of-bounds read when handling certain ID3v2 tags (CVE-2021-3522)

Summary

GStreamer before 1.18.4 may perform an out-of-bounds read when handling certain ID3v2 tags (CVE-2021-3522).
Overflows in AVC/HEVC NAL unit length calculations, which would lead to allocating infinite amounts of small memory blocks until OOM and could potentially also lead to memory corruptions.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28977

- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/-/merge_requests/2103

- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4903

- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4902

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4959-1

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3522

Resolution

MGASA-2021-0334 - Updated gstreamer1.0-plugins packages fix security vulnerabilities

SRPMS

- 8/core/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-1.18.3-1.1.mga8

- 8/core/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-1.18.3-1.1.mga8

- 8/tainted/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-1.18.3-1.1.mga8.tainted

- 7/core/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-1.16.0-2.1.mga7

- 7/core/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-1.16.0-1.2.mga7

- 7/tainted/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-1.16.0-1.2.mga7.tainted

Severity
Publication date: 10 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0334.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-3522

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