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openSUSE 15.4: 2023:3802-2 Critical: libsdl2 Heap Corruption

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2023
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Recent updates to gstreamer-plugins-base enhance security for openSUSE, fixing vulnerabilities in media handling, buffer overflows, and input validation.
This update for gstreamer-plugins-base fixes the following issues: CVE-2023-37327: Fixed FLAC file parsing integer overflow (bsc#1213128)

Description

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

* CVE-2023-37327: Fixed FLAC file parsing integer overflow (bsc#1213128).

* CVE-2023-37328: Fixed PGS file parsing heap-based buffer overflow

(bsc#1213131).

* CVE-2021-3522: Fixed frame size check and potential invalid reads

(bsc#1185448).

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow heap overflow integer overflow openSUSE gstreamer-plugins-base

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-3801=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS 15-SP1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP1-LTSS-2023-3801=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS 15-SP1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP1-LTSS-2023-3801=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP1-2023-3801=1

* SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0

To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform 'skuba' tool. It will inform

you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete

cluster in a controlled way.

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* typelib-1_0-GstFft-1_0-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS 15-SP1 (aarch64

x86_64)

* typelib-1_0-GstSdp-1_0-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* typelib-1_0-GstAllocators-1_0-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* libgstapp-1_0-0-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* libgstsdp-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* gstreamer-plugins-base-debuginfo-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* typelib-1_0-GstAudio-1_0-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* libgsttag-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* libgstallocators-1_0-0-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* typelib-1_0-GstVideo-1_0-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* libgstfft-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* libgstallocators-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* libgstaudio-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* libgstaudio-1_0-0-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* typelib-1_0-GstRtp-1_0-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* gstreamer-plugins-base-devel-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* libgstrtp-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

* typelib-1_0-GstPbutils-1_0-1.12.5-150000.3.6.1

*...

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References

* #1185448

* #1213128

* #1213131

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3522.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-37327.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-37328.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185448

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213128

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213131

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:3801-1
Rating: important

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security advisory buffer overflow heap overflow integer overflow openSUSE gstreamer-plugins-base

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