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openSUSE: 2016:3157-2 Critical Concern: gstreamer Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A recent security patch for gstreamer-plugins-good resolves multiple vulnerabilities, enhancing the integrity of audio playback in Fedora.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for gstreamer-plugins-bad fixes the following issues:

- Maliciously crafted VMnc (VMware video) streams (typically contained in

.avi files) could cause code execution during decoding or information

leaks due to an unitialized buffer (CVE-2016-9445, CVE-2016-9446,

boo#1010829).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1483=1

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1483=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

gstreamer-plugins-bad-1.4.5-8.1

gstreamer-plugins-bad-debuginfo-1.4.5-8.1

gstreamer-plugins-bad-debugsource-1.4.5-8.1

gstreamer-plugins-bad-devel-1.4.5-8.1

gstreamer-plugins-bad-doc-1.4.5-8.1

libgstbadbase-1_0-0-1.4.5-8.1

libgstbadbase-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.4.5-8.1

libgstbadvideo-1_0-0-1.4.5-8.1

libgstbadvideo-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.4.5-8.1

libgstbasecamerabinsrc-1_0-0-1.4.5-8.1

libgstbasecamerabinsrc-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.4.5-8.1

libgstcodecparsers-1_0-0-1.4.5-8.1

libgstcodecparsers-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.4.5-8.1

libgstgl-1_0-0-1.4.5-8.1

libgstgl-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.4.5-8.1

libgstinsertbin-1_0-0-1.4.5-8.1

libgstinsertbin-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.4.5-8.1

libgstmpegts-1_0-0-1.4.5-8.1

libgstmpegts-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.4.5-8.1

libgstphotography-1_0-0-1.4.5-8.1

libgstphotography-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.4.5-8.1

libgsturidownloader-1_0-0-1.4.5-8.1

libgsturidownloader-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.4.5-8.1

libgstwayland-1_0-0-1.4.5-8.1

libgstwayland-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.4.5-8.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

gstreamer-plugins-bad-32bi...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9445.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9446.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1010829

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:3158-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 .

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